Word: bats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bat Women. In northern Luzon, the 32nd Division's all-male 107th Medical Battalion baseball team played the Bayom-bong Filipino Girls' Club, lost the game...
From then on Oliver Morosco was one of the nation's most spectacular showmen. From a succession of Broadway hits including The Bat and Peg o' My Heart (with a glamorous new star, Laurette Tay lor) he made more than $5,000,000. But an 18-year-long plagiarism suit over The Bird of Paradise dogged most of his career, and in 1923 he was neck deep (though later cleared) in a $2½ million stock swindle involving his vast theater holdings. About that time, his shrewd judgment of box-office began to fail him. After passing...
Back in the Detroit lineup last week, after four years in the Army, big Hank Greenberg needed just four chances at bat to get his eye in. On the fifth try, he powdered a 375-ft. homer into his favorite left-field stand. With that wallop (and a repeat three days later), ex-Captain Greenberg: 1) began earning his $55,000-a-year salary, baseball's highest (for 60 days at least his pay remains at the 1941 rate); 2) made the front-running Tigers odds-on to win the American League pennant; 3) gave a psychological lift...
Legs & Lefties. The only player who holds an edge over the little Giant as a right fielder is the mighty George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, whose big bat always obscured his prowess afield. But at bat and in the field, 173-lb. Mel gives the 215-lb. Bambino a good...
...squares away to a pitch as though he were going to beat a rug. Crowding the plate with feet apart, he rears up his front leg (not unlike a dog leaning into a hydrant), pulls back his bat, then steps forward and swings. Whenever he faces a high-kicking pitcher, the game looks as leggy as ballet...