Word: batsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gilbert ("W. G.") Grace was incomparably the world's greatest all-round player the game has ever produced. A huge (6 ft. 2 in.) player, with his bushy, grey beard, dinky red & yellow cap and sometimes cranky disposition, he was as well known as Disraeli or Gladstone. As batsman, between 1865 and 1908 he made 54,896 runs, never surpassed. He considered cricket a science, was meticulous in his selection of bats.* The bat which "W. G." preferred was straight-grained willow. With such a bat a scientific batsman like himself could calculate all the forces of his drive...
...cricket enthusiasts last week got their first chance to see in action a 23-year-old Australian with a wide grin and protruding ears who is indisputably the greatest cricket batsman in the world. He, George Donald Bradman, with the other members of an Australian team that has been touring Canada, arrived in Manhattan to play three matches against teams of West Indians and one on the grounds of the Staten Island Cricket Club. Fatigued by the Canadian tour, in which his team won 14 out of 17 matches, and bothered by the sun, Batsman Bradman...
Died. Bozeman Bulger, 54, sports writer (baseball), playwright, raconteur; of heart disease; in Lynbrook, Long Island. Good friend to all baseballers, he wrote for the old New York World from 1905 until it was sold last year. Famed for his stories of the fabulous batsman, "Swat Milligan of the Poison Oak team," Writer Bulger had since been with Saturday Evening Post. During the War he led troops in the Argonne, became chief press representative on General Pershing's staff. At a dance in Coblenz after the Armistice, gay Writer Bulger amazed British officers by cutting in on Edward...
...Pinch hitter" (emergency batsman) was corned by Manager McGraw to describe Samuel Strang Nicklin, oldtime Giant (later a concert singer) who, aged 56, died last week in Chattanooga...
...next day, Batsman Ruth swung politely at two of Pitcher Mitchell's pitches, then demanded that the ball be inspected by the umpire. Then he allowed a third strike to go past without swinging at it. Heavy-hitting Lou Gehrig also "struck out." Presently Pitcher Mitchell walked a batter, was taken out of the game. Said she, "I did not know Babe Ruth had a weakness, but ... I have . . . wonderful control ... I am the happiest girl in the world...