Word: bats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortstop Walt Greeley's sprained ankle may force Samborski to put Fred Vonderlage in Greeley's place. Vonderlage will bat in the sixth slot in the batting order, while Captain Bob Smith will bat in Greeley's old number two spot...
...Yardlings, too, are strong in the outfield. Russ Johnson, Captain Bob Smith, and John Collins have played steady games in the field and at bat for the most part. Collins' hitting has, however, fallen off a trifle, so he will drop to sixth position in the batting order. Short-stop Walt Greeley, whose batting average has improved steadily, will take over the number three slot...
Otherwise, Samborski is satisfied. He calls the infield "set." George Chase, Greeley, John Canepa, and Jim O'Brien have been playing as a unit all year. Canepa has, in addition, paced the team at bat with a .457 average...
Samborski plans to stick with his usual lineup except for the left field slot, where Lew Arnow will replace Russ Johnson. Johnson has an exam. Also, Samborski has not yet decided whether he will start Amory Hubbard or Chuck Wade behind the bat...
Even though human ears cannot hear them, the pulses of a bat's sonar are surprisingly loud. When Dr. Griffin held his microphone three or four inches from the mouth of a pulsing bat, it registered a "sound pressure" of about 60 dynes per square centimeter (the sound pressure in a boiler shop: about 25 dynes). If human ears were tuned to bat frequencies, says Dr. Griffin rather proudly, a bat flying near to one's head would sound as loud as a fighter airplane...