Word: batsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mother's Day in Chicago, Mrs. William Feller sat, proudly beaming, in a box, watching her son Bob Feller, 20-year-old star Cleveland pitcher, blast Chicago's White Sox. Pock! A White Sox batsman fouled. The ball took Mother Feller in the eye, opened a six-stitch gash...
Lupe Lupien, 1938 League batting champ by almost 100 points, is a finished college batsman. Lupe, heady at the plate, hits well to any field and is a good baserunner...
...Doan's former quarters at Hot Springs, famed Batsman Rogers Hornsby has opened an establishment called the Rogers Hornsby Baseball College Classrooms. Associated with Hornsby College is a school for umpires, now in its fifth year, operated by National League Umpire George Barr. Barr pupils will get their field work umpiring the games of the Hornsby Collegemen this year, just as they previously did at Doan intramural games. Professor Barr charges $60 for a six-week course. Enrolled this year are 60 students, aged 21 to 40. He has made umpires out of doctors, lawyers, barbers, boilermakers, has placed...
...What Batsman Hutton had done, no Britisher had ever done before: in the fifth and last Test match with Australia he had scored 364 runs in one innings-and this at a time when English cricket seemed deader than "The Ashes" for which they were playing.-* The new record for the Anglo-Australian series was 30 runs better than the record set in 1930 by Australia's famed Don Bradman. It was even better than the record for all international cricket: 336 (against New Zealand), set in 1933 by Britain's famed Wally Hammond...
Those who witnessed Batsman Hutton's prodigious whacking at Kennington Oval last week will hand the story down to future generations: how it took the best Australian bowlers three days to get him out; how he was at bat 13½hours, ran 6½ miles; how the mayor of Pudsey sent him a telegram after every 50 runs; how, when he surpassed Don Bradman's record, the game was interrupted, all the players shook his hand, a waiter in tails and white tie scampered onto the field with a drink of lemonade, 30,000 spectators rose...