Word: battered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outfield, the University will be represented by Captain Todd, who will also assume the burden of clean-up batter, Ellison, a veteran of two Yale games, and Burns, Sophomore sprint star whose batting prowess and speed on the base-paths have won him the lead-off position on the Harvard batting array...
...brewer brewing a brew, a baker baking a cake, a woman having a gown made, a huntsman buying a horn-all these and many another involved in an operation where it is the result that counts, perform one act in common. They sip the brew, taste the batter, try on the gown, wind the horn. So, thought Chicago's school superintendent, William McAndrew, should those supporting public education be permitted to ladle out a sample of the educational pot and try it to see if the contents have taste, body, zest, quality. Last week he caused 40 eighth-grade...
...Elkins, former St. Mark's captain, seems to have one of the infield berths cinched. Davis, a pitcher, is a former Choate athlete, and promises to win a position on Coach Davidson's corps of hurlers. The heavy hitting of Durkee won for him the position of clean-up batter on one of the fall teams. The former Greenfield High player is expected to be a strong competitor for the first base post on the 1939 nine...
...Little World's Series" (Baltimore versus Louisville), Joseph Deberry, Louisville pitching star, smiled confidently at the first Oriole batter who faced him in the fourth inning of the eighth game for the minor league championship. In that inning two sturdy Baltimorons, Batters Porter and Brainard, smashed home runs over the centerfield fence, brought in three runs with the result that Deberry, no longer smiling, was removed from the box and Baltimore gained a lead which gave them the game, 5 runs to 2, the series 5 games...
...that 1905 series was a story known to almost everyone in the U. S.-the story of how Mathewson, after one brilliant season with Smith's Norfolkers, was bought by the New York Giants, how he had perfected his famed "fadeaway," studied the personal weaknesses of every batter who opposed him, become recognized as the master baseball technician...