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Word: batted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team was the Philadelphia Athletics, representing the American League. The other was the Chicago Cubs, representing the National League. As everyone knows, Mr. Wrigley is Cub owner. The millions of U. S. citizens who, through radio and newspaper, hung upon the flash of every ball, the crack of every bat, probably did not much concern themselves with the corporate aspects of the entertainment provided them. Nor, in justice to Mr. Wrigley, could it be said that his connection with baseball was sordidly commercial. The Chicago baseball franchise was no pearl of great price when Mr. Wrigley purchased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Series | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...Bat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Bellmore, L. I., potent station WEAF of the National Broadcasting Co. was silent for eight hours. Reason: a bat flew between some condenser plates, died there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...right. We'll beat de stuffen out'n dem. Us ain't got to bat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...Bat. At Marblehead, Mass, a cynosure was the 31-ft. Bat with the Charles Francis Adamses, father and son, aboard. Famed for flying starts and damn-your-eyes valor when it blows, the Secretary of the Navy had a bad week of it. The wind was so light and fluky that the races developed into drifting, breeze-hunting contests between the 285 yards of 33 classes assembled for the Corinthian Yacht Club's regatta. Time and again the Bat led at the start, lagged at the finish. Before the week was out, Sailor Adams Jr. left to join Gerald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yachts | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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