Word: bats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Williams banged two doubles and a single in four times at bat last night to lead the Red Sox to a 4 to 3 win over Baltimore. He raised his league-leading batting average from .404 to .417 and set up the tying run in the eighth...
...other two regulars also fared rather poorly at bat. Right fielder Matt Botsford only managed .200, but stole six bases. Catcher Phil Haughey did a fine job in handling his pitchers and smacked two home runs among his 11 hits. Needless to say, however, 11 out of 57 does not figure as a substantial batting average...
...former Advocate offices are now occupied by the Bat Club (a local organization...
...public about the boom. Instead of optimism, the greatest economic advance in history has often produced the opposite effect: a fretful, unreasoning pessimism. Like rabid Mickey Mantle fans, the U.S. has become so used to herculean feats that it expects a home run every turn at bat. A mere brace of singles-or merely excellent business-is no longer enough...
...soon Geoffrey's older brother, Boscoe, began to bang at the keyboard in the evenings, and Geoffrey copied him. When Boscoe developed a taste for painting and then for dancing, Geoffrey copied him again. Endowed with natural rhythm and a body as hard and flat as a cricket bat, Geoffrey left school in his early teens to join a native Trinidad dance group that brother Boscoe had put together. By the time Boscoe departed for a dancing career in London, 19-year-old Geoffrey had picked up enough choreography and designing to take over the company...