Word: bats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also Bay Rum. Al's eyes were still closed when the first bullet made a hole in his pudgy left hand. Both gunmen fired at him. Another slug went through Al's clothes, made him jump as though he had been hit with a baseball bat, and bloodied the soft, warm, white, middle-aged flesh of his right side. Al just had time to realize he was being killed. He kicked out in such convulsive fright that he broke the chair's metal footrest. Then he lurched up in adenoidal agony and knocked over a bottle...
...palmy days, Britain gave the world the dinner jacket, the sandwich, and the cricket bat. In this lesser epoch when a ride to the hounds has given way to the flight from the pound, the British imagination has turned wryly theoretical. From Stephen Potter issued the famed laws of lifemanship. Now, from an unlikely enclave of Empire known as the Raffles Chair of History at the University of Malaya in Singapore, Professor C. (for Cyril) Northcote Parkinson has produced a combination of Potter and the U.S.'s own William H. (The Organization Man) Whyte. Professor Parkinson's book...
...Burdette's coup also made him the first pitcher in 52 years to score two shutouts in a single Series, first ever to shut out the Yankees in two Series games. It was all the more impressive because the Braves gave Burdette remarkably little help at bat. Although Centerfielder Hank Aaron hit three home runs and a total of eleven hits (one less than the Series record), the new champions together set a record as the lowest-hitting team ever to win a seven-game Series (average...
...goes to the rosin bag before making a pitch. The rosin bag has become his father confessor. It absolves him of all sin." As a bench jockey, Burdette has been challenged to fisticuffs by Jackie Robinson, once even goaded even-tempered Roy Campanella into chasing him with a bat. Off the field the Braves got to know...
...Allen, whose voice blatted through the control room above the hum of air conditioners. Smith kept a score card, called out what action possibilities lay in the next play. With two men out in the second inning, Joe Adcock was on second, and Milwaukee Catcher Crandall came up to bat. Smith sang out: "Next man up is the pitcher. They might walk Crandall...