Word: batterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never really found himself until he was sent to the Braves. Pennant-hungry Milwaukee brought out the mean-spirited competitor in him, and he delighted in the sight of an opposing batter sprawling to escape his head-high fast ball. The measure of his success is the list of angry complaints that have scampered across four years of sports pages. Some of his National League opponents insisted-and still do-that he uses the outlawed spitball. "He breaks every rule in the book,'' maintains Cincinnati Manager Birdie Tebbetts. "The umpires tell me it doesn't matter...
...screens flashing four different views of the game, plus a fifth monitor linked to another camera focused on cards bearing players' names. Above this cluster of screens hung two more: one showed the picture that Coyle had just decided to put on home sets; the second, like the batter's on-deck circle, carried whatever shot he could foresee as the next...
...Take Three," called Coyle. "On Three," echoed Technical Director Walter Serafin into his private line to the cameramen, and he punched a button that put Camera Three on the air. It showed a side view of Crandall in the batter's box, with catcher and umpire behind...
Moving west to Milwaukee, Smith, Coyle & Co. got a workout that all but wore out their camera swivels. Through the zoom lens of an extra camera perched in a clump of pine trees behind center field, the TV audience could watch a pitcher, batter, catcher and a runner on second in one glance; sometimes the camera almost stole the catchers' signals. In the third game, 17 hits squirted about the landscape while the Yankees belittled the Braves, 12-3. The ten innings of the fourth game were a drill in aerial photography as four crucial home runs traveled...
...softball games (except when some industrial giant takes on a church-league team) are low-scoring affairs. The bunt is a favorite offensive weapon. Fast-handed fielders are always ready to charge the plate; the first and third basemen often find themselves playing just a few yards from the batter. Then the second baseman covers first, the shortstop covers third and the centerfielder takes over at second. The hit-and-run is rare, since base runners are permitted no lead...