Word: batterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third baseman Phil Mathias slammed a solid single to center field, and Ward walked the next batter. Yale short-stop Phil Schiffino, who had struck out in his first two plate appearances, then spanked a double to right center field, scoring Mathias. MacKenzie, who had also struck out twice, laced another double down the right field line, scoring two more runs...
Beauty and Power. When fight time came. Rocky showed that he needed no help from either ring or rackets. With rough-and-tumble power, as clumsy as any champion since Camera, he took 8 rounds and 54 seconds to batter Cockell senseless. Then the British writers, who once upon a time were renowned for understatement, really turned it on. Their champion, taking a savage beating, had indeed met defeat like a true Briton. "And that is why the high and the mighty, the men with power, the women with beauty and vast possessions are rising in a kind of primeval...
Airtight Case. In Reno, acting as his own attorney, Ex-Convict Thomas Mitchell argued successfully in district court that he was obviously not the man who tried to batter open an automobile-agency safe, because an old pro like himself could have done the job neatly and quietly in 20 minutes...
...Army infield of Gene Fisher at first base, Art Martina at second, Mike Conrad at short, and Joe Cygler at third is considered one of the weakest West Point infields of recent years, averaging six errors a game. Army's hitting is also poor, with cleanup batter and end left fielder Ralph Cheanauskan the only 300 hitter on the squad. Chesnauskas, a regular football tackle, missed the first two baseball games because of spring football practice, and has added a great deal of power to the Cadet attack since his return...
...middle part of the batting order was off yesterday, as it has been in several other games. Besides Butters, who stranded seven runners in three times at bat, clean-up man George MacDonald and fifth batter Cleary went hitless. When this part of the attack starts to produce, the Crimson's occasional fielding lapses should go unnoticed...