Word: bats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign-aid program that the President went to bat for last week adds up to a sweeping change in the U.S. conduct of the economic cold war. The program is new in the sense that it grasps all the varied foreign-aid operations and sorts them, logically, into a streamlined framework comprehensible at home and abroad. The program is new in the sense that the Administration now seeks to deploy the U.S.'s economic might not merely to stave off Communist aggression but to roll it back by enlarging the area and the appeal of freedom-plus-economic-progress...
...majors. Texas has sent some, including Dodger Innelder Randy Jackson and Boston Manager Pinky Higgins, and Bibb himself went to the Chicago White Sox directly from the Texas campus in 1920. A keg-shaped, hard-hitting outfielder, he stayed in the majors for twelve years, averaged .312 at bat. But today, says Bibb, many boys with too little talent are tempted to sign baseball contracts and quit school. The Kansas City Athletics, for example, have signed 322 collegians since 1955-but igo have already been released, and only 17 are rated as likely prospects. College authorities estimate that...
...peaceable-looking third-base rookie for the Valdosta (Ga.) Tigers was puzzled. Every time he came to bat, opposing pitchers seemed anxious to hit him in the head. He wondered if his manager had noticed. "Sure," said that helpful gentleman. "If I played against you I'd do the same thing. You just look like a guy who ought to be knocked down...
...Running from second to third, Don fielded a sure double-play grounder, was called out for interference, but prevented the Milwaukee Braves from getting another out by forcing the Redleg running from first to second. Now-such interference automatically costs the team at bat two outs...
...manager would tolerate a gin bottle in dugout or bullpen. So what explained the sudden spurt of skill of Detroit Third Baseman Reno Bertoia? For two full seasons, and even this spring, Bonus Baby Bertoia sometimes performed like a crossfoot clown in the field and was too tense at bat to hit his hat size. Still, as the season started, Bertoia was given the nod over Jim Finigan to play third. He has yet to make an error, and at week's end he was second in the American League in batting with a hefty .375 (behind Boston...