Word: batted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ball caught on the fly is out. If he thinks he can make it, he runs for the other wicket (66 feet away) and a teammate, ready at the other wicket, trades places. Every time they change places successfully, they have scored a run. A man stays at bat until he has been bowled, caught out, run out or ruled "l.b.w."* If he is still in when his side has been retired, (i.e., when ten men are out) he "carries his bat...
...G.I.s play baseball during the war, generally regarded it as a sissy game, like the one played by little girls & boys and called Rounders. When Babe Ruth tried his hand at cricket in a visit to England in 1935, he swatted the ball so hard that he broke the bat. He glowed: "I wish they would let me use a bat as wide as this in baseball...
...Cleveland, a landlord named Arthur Clark hit on a novel way of evicting tenants who refused to pay more than OPA rents. He hired a gang of thugs, equipped them with pistols, blackjacks, clubs and a baseball bat, sicked them on his tenants. One tenant died of a cracked skull. Last week Clark and one thug were convicted of second-degree murder, sentenced to life imprisonment...
Died. John A. Hillerich, 80, who in 1884 made the first "Louisville Slugger" baseball bat, later founded the famed Hillerich & Bradsby Co. which manufactures nearly all bats for the major and minor leagues (over 2,000,000 a year), for half a century has supplied baseball's great with tailor-made weapons; in Chicago...
...Bat-haunted and deserted for centuries, the mysterious limestone cities of the Maya crouch in the Yucatan bush and the Guatemalan-Honduran jungles. They were already in ruins when Hernando Cortes marched into Mexico 400 years ago to teach Montezuma's Aztecs a Spanish lesson. The names of those deserted cities echo with a kind of distant, mournful music: Tikal, Copan, Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Mayapan...