Word: bat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National League listened on Monday to its president, John A. Heydler, propose to make out of the baseball nine a baseball ten. Mr. Heydler would give every manager the option of naming a tenth man on his team who would bat in place of the pitcher when ever the rotation got to the bottom of the batting order. The pitcher would continue to pitch, always sitting on the bench between innings, until his usefulness on the mound was exhausted...
...other Parisian theatrical event of the week was the appearance of M. Nikita Balieff's famed Russian Bat Theatre, the Chauve-Souris in French for the first time. Heretofore, the troupe has played exclusively in Russian, with M. Balieff introducing each act in excruciating pidgin-English, French, German, or Italian...
Mooted but unconfirmed is the tale that behind Dictator Carmona's sudden shoe decree looms a man named Bat'a. Famed, he, Thomas Bat'a, is the Shoe Tycoon of Czechoslovakia (TIME...
Hoilis at 8.20-"Dracula". Casey at the Bat, or the vampire that wasn't Theda Bara...
...Self-made" and no University man, Thomas Bat'a took the next best course by marrying the daughter of a university professor...