Word: batterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protective security of radio, hardly ever got into the act. Expert Kieran covered his own nervousness with a fluent flow of ad lib comments (although he once flubbed a quotation from Omar Khayyam). Sportcaster Red Barber, delivering General Electric's commercials, was as edgy as a batter facing the three-and-two pitch. Biggest surprise: James Michener's wide fund of knowledge, e.g., natural history, poetry, mythology...
...chances of a no-hitter are very slim; of some 50,000 major league games, only 86 have been no-hitters. The "perfect game"-i.e., a no-hitter with no batter reaching base on a walk or error-has not been achieved in the major leagues since 1922.* Last week Brooklyn Dodger Pitcher Carl Erskine missed the perfect game by the scant margin of a base on balls to-of all people-Pitcher Willie Ramsdell, weakest hitter of the Chicago Cubs...
...ninth, with one out and two to go, Chicago Manager Phil Cavarretta came up as a pinch hitter. He blasted a long ball into the rightfield stands, and the crowd sighed in relief as it went foul. Cavarretta went out on an easy fly to centerfield. The final batter worked Erskine to a full 3-ball, 2-strike count before meekly grounding out. First-Base Umpire Bill Stewart had hardly made his dramatic thumb-up "out" gesture before the whole Dodger team poured out from diamond and dugout to crowd around grinning Carl Erskine and cheer the most sparkling pitching...
Regular first baseman both this year and last, Johnson is a solid right-handed batter who finished the season with an average of .376 after a torrid start, which saw him hitting above .500 over the first few weeks of the schedule. Johnson's final mark placed him second on the squad list, behind catcher Captain Charlie Walsh...
...record books or statistics. In 1922, when Chicago was playing Princeton's "Team of Destiny" (Fullback Charley Caldwell, now Princeton's coach; Quarterback John Gorman; End Howard ["Howdy"] Gray), the Chicago offense was stopped cold on the Tiger two-yard line. After Chicago tried unsuccessfully to batter its way through center, Stagg's assistant, "Fritz" Crisler (later a Princeton coach, 1932-37), suggested that...