Word: batterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After giving up a somewhat tainted home run to the lead-off batter, a line drive on which right fielder Matt Botsford missed making a shoestring catch, Crimson hurler Bob McGinnis held Boston University scoreless the rest of the route as Harvard went on to win the contest...
...Chief Justice Earl Warren, Adlai Stevenson and Thomas Dewey. Golden has no room for news stories, pictures or headline type. Instead, he fills the 16-page paper with witty, erudite discourse on subjects ranging from Dr. Johnson's recipe for oysters (baked in a flour-and-water batter) to Cato's hangover cure (raw cabbage leaves...
...Stanley Industries' "Bat-em Catch-em" ($10) an automatic pitcher, flings out plastic baseballs for more than 30 ft. for the young catcher or batter...
...after the first few innings, Sal Maglie was just the second-best pitcher in the game. Towering (6 ft. 4 in., 220 Ibs.) Yankee Larsen was scarcely wasting a pitch. Only once, against Pee Wee Reese in the first inning, did he go to a full count on a batter. His sharp curves found the plate as if they had eyes. He needed no more than 97 pitches (71 of which were in the strike zone) to dispose of the absolute minimum of 27 Dodger hitters, and not a single Dodger got to first base. While the crowd watched tensely...
AMERICAN LEAGUE Team: New York (by 9½ games) Pitcher: Pierce, Chicago (13-3) Batter: Mantle, New York (.371) RBI: Mantle, New York (74) Home Runs: Mantle, New York...