Word: batterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...togged out in pullover, batter's gloves and pads, British Cinemactress Jean ("Ophelia") Simmons struck a pose while waiting her turn at bat in the contest of Pinewood Film Studio v. the Cranleigh School. Cricketer Simmons scored 14 runs, helped Pinewood win by three wickets...
...Jersey Scholarship and recently organized the C. U. Amateur Baseball Club. It is not clear which game the two schools were playing-two stories appearing in Varsity say "baseball," although a letter received from A. C. Barrington Brown, of the Varsity staff mentions "softball." The photograph, which shows batter J. J. Londinsky (Trinity College, Cambridge, and New York), wearing a false moustache, and catcher D. Schwayder (Oxford and Deaver), with a genuine beard, would indicate softball...
Crosby, who had earlier belted a 350-foot homer out of the park with two men on, got one out, but hit the second man to face him, putting the winning run on first base. But Bob Brooks, the next batter, hit a drive to left that Ben Akillian was able to snare. Akillian's toss to second baseman Tom Cavanaugh was in time to double Carl Giurrana and end the game...
...Cadets tied it up in the seventh. Godin let a slow roller by Bob Blaik go past him and then passed Jim Stuff. The runners advanced when Godin pitched wide and then scored when Ted Lobe, league leading batter, singled...
...looked like more trouble in the last of the ninth as the Cadets kept fighting. With no outs, Blaik doubled, and advanced to third on pinch-hitter Mackmull's infield out. Leadoff batter Stuff then caught one of Godin's fast balls on the nose, and it looked like the game would be tied until Huntington leaped high in the air and pulled down the smash. he stepped on third for the final out of the game...