Word: bats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game winning streak, they racked up the big lead that they have been hanging on to steadily. They have been equal to all their troubles. Out of long experience. Manager Walter ("Smokey") Alston knew just how to discipline Big Don Newcombe when he kicked up a fuss about pitching batting practice (TIME, May 23); Big Newk has been pitching (18 won, i lost) and hitting (.376 at week's end) with astonishing skill ever since. With Pee Wee Reese, Junior Gilliam and Carl Furillo all doing their share, there is hardly a chance that the team can pick...
Last season was Campy's worst ever. His left hand, hit by one of Yankee Allie Reynolds' World Series pitches, was badly bruised, and his batting average sank to .207. He wondered whether he would ever play again. After a while, the hand was partially paralyzed. This spring, after an operation, he was back. Two fingers of his left hand were still stiff, but, said he: "I can curl them around a bat handle, and that's what counts." At a gathering of baseball writers not long ago, the grand ballroom of New York's Waldorf...
...just as small and twice as lively as a drop of water dancing on a hot griddle. All afternoon, the Cards collected only eight hits, turned them into three thin runs. Not a man among them drew a walk. The Dodgers, meanwhile, scored twelve times. In five times at bat the versatile Newk got two singles, a double, and a tremendous homer into the right field stands...
Prized Pitching. If the Dodgers have their wish, that strong right arm will never give out; but if it does, Newk has no worry. His batting eye is so sharp that he could be taught to shag flies and turned into a good outfielder. (Impressed by the same kind of hitting. Boston Red Sox Manager Ed Barrow turned a good pitcher named George Herman Ruth into an outfielder in 1918.) So far this season, Newk boasts a .406 batting average and a slugging percentage (calculated by dividing total times at bat into total bases reached on hits) of .797. With...
...While reading the story on Mr. Walter Reuther [June 20], I could not help thinking what a wonderful thing it would be if the disabled veterans had a man like him to go to bat for them-assuming that he understands our problems-as he does for the auto workers...