Word: battered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pitcher, then yanked him with the count only three-and-one. At the time, nobody objected. But in the clubhouse after the game, an ex-sportwriter advised Pittsburgh's Manager Billy Meyer to protest: the Dodgers had violated Rule 17 (a relief pitcher must handle at least one batter). Confessed Manager Meyer: "I pulled a real rock." Said Manager Shotton: "We pulled a rock." Agreed Umpire Jocko Conlan: "Everyone pulled a rock." The game will be replayed later this month, beginning with the three-and-one count in the ninth...
...also taken a while for McCarthy's highly touted boys to realize that they had to run to catch fly balls, take a healthy swing to knock a ball out of the infield, hustle to throw an opposing batter out at first...
...first the camera kept its eye close up, on pitcher & batter, and followed the runner to first. It has since learned that one of television's big thrills is watching Outfielder Joe DiMaggio take a practiced look at a ball heading his way, turn, and without looking back spurt to the right spot, swing around casually and let the ball fall into his glove. The unexpected makes some of television's brightest moments: a rainstorm breaks, and the camera shows ground keepers covering the pitcher's box with canvas, then sweeps across the bleachers, singling out soaked...
...spot. Baseball, football, hockey, horse racing and basketball are tougher problems. Too frequently, watchers are dragged through eye-straining "pans" as the camera races to catch up with the action. Baseball telecasts, says the show business magazine Variety, "are right back where radio was when a batter would rattle a hit off the fence for two bases and Ted Husing would call it a 'Texas Leaguer...
...Given a genuinely funny sketch-such as Moss Hart's about a superstitious maid who unnerves an actress on opening night and Bea is colossal. Given a reasonable chance to shine-as in two or three other numbers-and she shines. But forced, as she often is, to batter her way through a sketch, even Bea gets bruised...