Word: bats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then followed nine years of drifting from job to job, convictions for false pretenses, petty larceny, and once for hitting his landlady over the head with a cricket bat. A kindly Roman Catholic priest befriended him, tried to reunite him and his wife, but Christie stole the priest's car and went to jail again. After that the Christies went to live at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, a shabby London district. In World War II, Christie joined the Police War Reserve and earned two commendations for "efficient detection in crime.'' He took up photography, kept scores...
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...Bat cocked righthanded. fingers flexing and caressing the handle, Mantle crouched at the plate and waited. As the pitcher went into his windup. Mantle dug his spikes more firmly into the batter's box, hunching his fullback's body (5 ft.11 in., 195 Ibs.) into a deeper crouch. The pitch bulleted toward him at something like 80 m.p.h.?a fast ball, letter high, over the outside corner of the plate...
Mickey Mantle set a muscular chain reaction in motion. Starting in the ankles, rippling through knees, hips, torso, broad shoulders and 17-in. bull neck, he brought his bat around in a perfect arc to meet the ball with a sharp crack. High and deep it sailed. The White Sox centerfielder. playing deep, went a few steps back, then stood, face upturned, as the ball sailed over the fence for a 425-ft. home...
Died. Jesse C. Burkett, 84, Hall of Fame baseball star, and one of three players (the others: Rogers Hornsby, Ty Cobb) ever to bat over .400 in two consecutive seasons (with Cleveland, 1895-96); in Worcester, Mass...