Word: batterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AMERICAN LEAGUE Team: Cleveland (by ½ game) Pitcher: Byrne, New York (13-4) Batter: Kaline, Detroit (.350) Runs Batted In: Jensen, Boston; Boone, Detroit (102) Home Runs: Mantle, New York...
NATIONAL LEAGUE Team: Brooklyn (by 14 games) Pitcher: Newcombe, Brooklyn (19-4) Batter: Ashburn, Philadelphia (.336) Runs Batted In: Snider, Brooklyn (128) Home Runs: Kluszewski, Cincinnati...
...George Orwell's porcine commissar whose classic formula was: "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others." Similarly, Author Hodgkinson has fun with the word peace (mir) and the bellicose roarings of those who advocate it, including the Czech miner who promised to "batter the warmongers to death with peace...
...Indians' veteran first baseman and outfielder, now in his ninth major-league season, was stricken with a mild attack of polio. Wertz, whose long-ball hitting (14 homers, 55 runs batted in) has helped keep the Indians high up in the American League pennant race, was a standout batter of the last year's World Series (a .500 average, including one homer, one triple and two doubles). At week's end Wertz's doctors reported "no signs" of paralysis, but he will probably be out for the rest of the season. Temporary replacement at first base...
...symptoms. He comes down with World Series fever. Years of frustration curdle his spleen; choleric misanthropy consumes him. The cure is drastic: he must spend an afternoon in the Polo Grounds bleachers snarling his defiance at the civilized world-pleading with a succession of Giant pitchers to skull a batter and "stick it in his ear," begging every Giant base runner to spike an infielder and" chop his legs off." So it was on Sept. 29, 1954. Hano began the day by snapping at his wife. He spent the early morning standing in line waiting to buy a ticket...