Word: batterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other starters tomorrow include Jim O'Brien, first base, George Chase, third, Russ Johnson, left field, and John Collins, right field. Johnson, a right-handed batter, will hit clean...
John Sheehan of Wigglesworth, catcher, and Holyoke's Paul "Cannon Ball" Martin, pitcher, make up the battery. Martin's famous balloon ball is so effective that by the time it gets to the batter, "he's too old to appreciate...
Using hard rubber baseballs, the instrument flashes a small light to warn the batter it is about to "pitch" and then shoots the ball from a metal pipe. Levers in the rear of the machine can adjust the speed and direction of the ball. Currier's invention differs from those used by the Boston Braves and Brooklyn Dodgers, as it does not have a mechanical arm to deliver the ball and does not require reloading after every pitch...
...Gold Coast, every year gourmets, scholars jazz flends, and sleep lovers, who like to stay in bed until five minutes before their classes. Lover's of the a synthetic can enjoy the House's fine print collection and hundreds of classical recordings; athletes can paddle in the pool or batter the ball on Adams' private squash courts...
...Cake Batter. Nobody was working any harder to do it than Hearstling Pro Tern Fannie Hurst. Novelist Hurst, 60, wore a life-sized enamel calla lily, a jade ring as big as a crow's egg, and a jade-and-gold bracelet so heavy that she had to take it off to type her stories. Her journalistic style was equally flamboyant. She mixed metaphors as vigorously as a housewife mixing cake batter: "Even more than the cloak-and-dagger, who-done-it crime of 'grand passion,' the motives here involved strike, straight as the crow flies, into...