Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While regular umpires will arbitrate baseball games, softballers must provide their own martyrs to the cause from non-playing members, and in addition must carry on without the benefit of stolen bases, bunts, or leads off base before the pitch reaches the batter. Seven innings will suffice in both hard and softball, while the usual four and a half or five frames will constitute an official game...
...starting infield Berg has named Johnny Chase for third base, Johnny Goldsmith and Myles Huntington at shortstop and second, and Frank Lionette on first. Frank Glimp, Hal Moffie, and Dick Kobusch will cover the outfield in left, center and right respectively...
...Exeter alumni and two former basketball players will make up the Yardling infield. The former Exonians are second-baseman Miles Huntington and third-baseman John Chase, and the sometime basketeers include Frank Lionette, another all-scholastic performer who will be at first base, and Johnny Goldsmith at shortstop...
Pitchers Ralph Hymans, Bren Reilly, and Jack Wallace went three innings spiece, each doing the hurling for both teams. Hitting was restricted to spasmodic singles, Walt Coulson delivering the only extra base blow with a short double down the left field line...
...bought gold bullion in Berlin-50 million marks' worth of nice, shiny gold for the depleted Soviet treasury. Last week, a frantic message came from Moscow: the gold was phony! Investigation showed that Germans (among them many D.P.s) had operated an illegal smelter in Berlin, casting a base alloy with a thin gold coating into small "gold" bricks. This week, the Russian assayers who had permitted themselves to be fooled were in jail...