Word: bats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cincinnati's Crosley Field last week, Pitcher Schoolboy Rowe, a lantern-jawed giant of a man, was in trouble. He glanced around, mopped his brow with his fingers. Two Cincinnati players were on base, and a dangerous man was stepping up to bat. Schoolboy fired the ball in toward the plate...
Others had urged similar measures in the past, but for the first time the Navy was shamed into acquiescence. Secretary Forrestal promised to bat the commission's main recommendations up to Congress. All was not lost for the Navy. The island governors would still be Navy...
...first London merchant to buy U.S. style full-page newspaper ads and to boast of such unique department-store services as wart removal, pipe cleaning, coal delivery, cricket-bat oiling, wig making, expert umbrella rolling...
Those horrible little imps who badger bewildered ball players were after Stan Musial. They lock-stepped up & down his bat and chanted in his ear: "You're in a slump . . . you're in a slump...
...been able to hit. Though not overly superstitious by nature, Musial began spitting over his left shoulder and looking for good-luck hairpins in hotel lobbies. That didn't help. Said he, desperately, "I've had the whole team advising me, and I all but take the bat to bed with me." His batting average sagged...