Word: batterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once-a-week ball fan may think of the catcher merely as a target for the pitcher to shoot at. Actually, the job is the most demanding in baseball. A good catcher must be able to take punishment. Foul tips batter his hands; the batter's big club swishes past his skull; base runners hit him with intent to maim as they slide for home. Through it all he must use his head, for he is baseball's tactical commander, its platoon leader. He must watch the signs according to the batter, the score, the inning. He must...
...Bessent and Roger Craig, hold off the opposition and give the Dodgers' sore-armed veterans a rest. At bat, he is once more teaming up with Centerfielder Duke Snider to make one of the toughest one-two hitting combinations since Ruth and Gehrig. Campy settles into the batter's box with sure confidence-legs spread, left foot in the bucket so that he is half facing the pitcher-and he rattles out base hits, and moves with the swift authority that is the secret dream of American youth...
...third pitch bounced off the third batter's head, and the Fallon crowd poured out of the stands, bent on tar-and-feathering McCulloch. But cooler heads prevailed; they argued that after all McCulloch had just presented the Merchants with three runs. The fans returned to the stands and McCulloch went back to the mound. Respectfully, the Merchants stood far back from the plate. But Frank's sizzler began to work. He went on to strike out 19 batters and even walloped a seventh-inning homer, but the damage was done-Verdi lost...
...Batter: Ashburn, Philadelphia...
...Batter: Kaline, Detroit...