Word: batted
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...bat who sided with quadrupeds, with birds...
...miles over the sea on a strip of coconut matting 22 yards long was being played a test* match between England and Australia. The scene was set upon a sward near Adelaide, South Australia; and in the presence of thousands of people England was making her stand with the bat against the fast balls and ready hands of the Australians. Every movement of the 22 players was sent slithering through the ether to the isles of Britain...
...sped the batsmen along the pitch-too late! An alert "Kangaroo" had shot the ball into the wicket keeper's gloved hands and a fraction of a second later the ball flew off the stumps just a fraction of a second before the English batsman could shove his bat over the "popping crease" (batting line). England was beaten. Loud cheers and glad faces in Australia. Silence and long faces in England...
...most cases the difference between a major league player and a minor leaguer lies in his brain power. The man in the minor league may be able to bat a ball as far, run just as fast, and throw a ball as hard as the major league man, but usually his mind is not as alert as the man in the higher league. Most ball players must play for serveral years in the minors before they can find a permanent, job in one of the major leagues. This is not true so much in the case of college men, because...
...last act; he shuddered, uttered a desperate anticlimax, and succumbed. The audience paid no attention to his fiasco, but was satisfied with the thrills that has gone before; well-schooled by the happy ending-at-all-costs movies, it was already groping for its bat under the seat...