Word: batterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Take one distant century-say the 16th-and take it seriously. Add one princely husband, admiring and dull; one bride, beautiful and devout; one young lover, handsome and ardent. Stir the ingredients in a batter of love-at-first-sight and courtly ceremony; cook over a slow fire of virtue, grief and remorse; then sprinkle with fragments of broken hearts. This basic recipe for romance or rubbish is served up cold in Madame de Lafayette's Princess of Cleves...
Husky coach Herb Gallagheer is not sure whether he will start his ace, southpaw senior Dick Sheldon, or his number two moundsman, sophomer right-hander John Costello, against the Crimson. If Sheldon is on the mound, McInnis will put Walt Greeley into right field in place of left-handed batter Ralph Robinson...
Northeastern has a comparatively weak-hitting club. Gallagher considers his shortstop and cleanup man, Vic Colo, his most dependable batter, but Colo's average has drifted below 300. Left-hander Andy Allan leads the team in hits...
Team: Brooklyn Dodgers Pitcher: Bickford, Boston (5-1) Batter: Robinson, Brooklyn (.409) Runs Batted In: Pafko, Chicago (22) Home Runs: Hodges, Brooklyn...
AMERICAN LEAGUE Team: New York Yankees Pitcher: Lopat, New York (5-0) Batter: Coan, Washington (.412) Runs Batted In: Wertz, Detroit (23) Home Runs: Williams, Boston...