Word: bats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Right off the bat, Harry Truman proved himself a radio speaker who meant to be clearly understood. His manner was so deliberate that it was sometimes dull, and he spoke so slowly it was sometimes exasperating. Lacking anything approaching the Rooseveltian "magic," either in voice or style, he made a virtue out of making himself plain-and that made it easy to believe what he said...
...made their debuts grabbed any headlines. One of the two best publicized, one-armed Pete Gray of the Browns, scratched a single in his first game, then hurt his shoulder diving for a line drive. The other was switch-hitting, ex-serviceman Al Schoendienst, who once swung the meanest bat in the International League (despite almost total blindness in one eye); he rapped a triple off the right field wall in the opener, then helped lose the game for the St. Louis Cardinals with a two-base error...
...been for the Crimson's four errors, Wallace might have come out much more successfully in spite of the 18 hits, many of them for extra bases, that rattled off the Quonset bats. Led by a centerfielder of ten years' professional experience, who banged out two homers and two doubles in his first four times at bat, the naval nine kept well out in front from the first inning...
...Chicago's Cubs again lean heavily on the strong pitching arm of Claude Passeau and the big bat of home-run specialist Bill ("Swish") Nicholson...
...Giants might climb upstairs. The Philadelphia Phils must struggle along without their one power-hitter, Ron Northey; the Boston Braves can only hope that some of their 21 rookies will blossom; the 'Brooklyn Dodgers will try to get along on fanatical fan-enthusiasm and the league-leading (.357) bat of Dixie ("Pride of Flatbush") Walker...