Word: batsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Observers agreed that scarcely ever was there a more crucial pitch as Deacon hurler Dick Mudge tossed the fatal offering to Murphy. "Maybe I had my eyes closed," the Bellboy batsman said lost night. "I thought I was sighting along...
...best team in the League, Dartmouth, through its first five games, has maintained a batting average of .327 as compared with Harvard's .297, and leads the Eastern Intercollegiate series with an average of .944 as opposed to the Crimson .932. The Big Green also ahs the best batsman in the circuit, catcher Joe Urban, who scored a .500 in his first five games...
...their delight Travelers Binstead and Proud learned that the fifth match of the series was not yet over, that Batsman Bradman had just finished rolling up the impressive score of 169 runs. This helped swell Australia's first innings score to 604. England, which had won the first two matches at Brisbane and Sydney and lost the next two at Melbourne and Adelaide, had made only 239 runs in its first innings. It was now faced with the task of getting at least 365 runs in the second to make it necessary for Australia to bat again. England...
Even more preposterous than the idea that cricket is nothing more than a national game is the idea that Batsman Bradman is merely the Babe Ruth of Australia. A discussion about how close to the batsman's body it is sporting for a fast bowler to pitch his ball strained British political relations with Australia in 1933. When King Edward abdicated last winter the consternation in Australia was no greater than that which would have prevailed last week had Braddles been "bowled for a duck egg" (put out with no runs). For Braddles to abdicate would simply be unthinkable...
...World Series was a personal struggle between Hubbell and Gehrig. Lean, morose Carl Owen Hubbell is currently baseball's No. 1 Pitcher and among the half dozen ablest in the game's annals. Jolly, thick-legged Henry Louis Gehrig is the game's No. 1 batsman. Even more remarkable than the freak that made this year's World Series antagonists so geographically close and so temperamentally remote was the freak that made it include also the two greatest figures in the game, each symbolizing perfectly his team's specialty...