Word: batterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...base, he shoved his big right paw into his hip pocket for a plug of chewing tobacco. Sam McMackin, the Paterson pitcher, went into his windup. Honus shouted for time; he waved his gloved hand and jumped wildly to attract Mc-Mackin's attention. McMackin pitched anyway. The batter grounded to short...
...named Denton True Young came down from "the Ohio hills to try out as a pitcher for the Canton baseball team of the Tri-State League. He had no uniform, and the Canton manager did not even bother to use a catcher. One of the team's best batters simply stood in front of the grandstand, and the kid started firing the ball past him. The batter never got a piece of it, and the big farmer's fast ball almost tore up the grandstand backboard. "Looks like a cyclone hit it," said the Canton manager. "Cyclone" Young...
...could feel it breathing as I hustled to bat," he recalls, "or maybe it was smothering from inhaling dandruff." Anyway, Casey walked to the batter's box brandishing five bats as if he were going to knock down the ballpark. The stands booed. Casey stepped to the plate, waited until the pitcher was about to throw, then called time. Elaborately he went through the motions of getting a cinder out of his eye. The Brooklyn stands roared with fury...
...Bullet Bob" Turley, Casey's best righthander, can be as wild as an ensign with a .45; he has a tendency to aim the ball when he gets behind a batter, and may be a setup for Dodger power...
Captain Pee Wee Reese is the great shortstop that a pennant-winning club usually depends on. He is also a dangerous and daring base runner, a deadly batter when working the hit-and -run. Teaming up with him at third, Jackie Robinson also makes up in hotheaded drive what he has lost in speed. He is still an excellent glove man, and once on base, can still give a pitcher the fits. At bat, he likes to stay back in the box and step into an outside pitch. Pitchers who can keep the ball high and across the hands...