Word: bats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Willie Mays, rookie centerfielder, only 20 and a little bewildered by the big time, struck out wildly, booted routine fly balls, and got only one hit in his first 26 times at bat. Durocher stuck loyally with the youngster, and Willie, a natural hitter with speed to spare, responded to such good effect that he ended up as the likeliest candidate for the National League's rookie-of-the-year...
...Giants were on base-the tying runs. Bobby Thomson, the potential winning run, was due to bat. With a gesture that Durocher would have disdained a year ago, he patted Thomson on the back. "Boy," said Leo in fervent, fatherly tones, "if you ever hit one, hit one now." Thomson did, high, wide & handsome. His home run, plunk into the left-field stands, won the game and the pennant...
...miracle that Miviedom's Dodgers won a single game. None of the extras could swing a bat properly, and they all insisted on sitting in their dugout while the other team was up at the plate. These ineptitudes, however, are hardly worth mentioning, because after all the show is nothing more than a delightful farce...
...Socialists had two lines to peddle: apology for troubles at home (Attlee: "We've had to bat on a very sticky wicket"), and insistence that Churchill would be too militant (Herbert Morrison: "I tremble for the cause of peace if the Conservative temperament and warlike excitability were predominant in Parliament"). Actually, this suspicion of Churchill plays on his bulldog reputation and not on his recent utterances, for Churchill is acutely aware of the danger of sounding warlike in war-weary Britain. On these unspecific lines, the battle between Attlee's Socialists and Churchill's Tories began...
...Stoughton men were annoyed last week when newspapers said they hit the phone with a baseball bat--'It was always a brick." After the spinproof chute was installed "one forehanded genius was practicing spinning nickels into the quarter slot in preparation for a call to his home in Texas...