Word: bats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some belittlers, exaggerating Dressen's importance, think the Dodgers won't be the same without him.) But Leo's lip also pays off. Against the Chicago Cubs last season, the day was getting dark and Brooklyn's pitcher was weakening. As his club came to bat, still leading 2-to-0, Durocher snapped to the bench: "Listen, you guys! I'm gonna stir up a rhubarb.* He began heckling the Cubs' catcher, Mickey Livingston: "Yeah, you! Grimm never used you this year until the pennant race was over, did he? Couldn't take...
...Bat Radiators. Like birds, bats are streamlined, with their testes inside their bodies. When inactive, their temperature may fall very low, but when they fly, as they do every night to gather food, they are as hot as birds. How do their spermatogenic cells withstand this nightly cooking? Dr. Cowles examined bats, both active and resting, in the breeding and the non-breeding seasons. He found that, while they are at rest, their hairless wings are pallid, almost bloodless. But when they raise their temperature to the flying level, which they must do by an effort of will before they...
...membrane. Dr. Cowles postulates that the venous blood, returning from the air-cooled membranes, keeps their temperature down. Next step will be to prove it with accurate observations. Fellow zoologists cheer him on, but predict that he will have trouble when he tries to take the temperature of a bat's testes while it is flying...
...Central's huge debt, step up modernization. But he could not hope to get quick control of Central unless 1) Central's present directors submitted, 2) ICC added its blessing. Last week Central's directors were seriously thinking of making Young board chairman right off the bat...
...workout yesterday on chilly Soldiers Field was the first time the entire team performed anywhere except in the Stygian gloom of Briggs Cage. Some weeks ago, the coach allowed his outfield to get some pasturage, but yesterday's session was the first opportunity Varsity players have had to bat against a normal background, and to study the intricate gyrations a baseball can perform on natural turf...