Word: batterer
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...tune of 9-7, Coach Mitchell's forces seem at last to be on the good baseball trail after playing a splendid game against highly touted Holy Cross. Unless they are again hogtied by the deliveries of Bob Leahy they are in a good enough hitting mood to batter out a victory...
...addition to being the game's youngest pitcher he is also, to all appearances, its best. Strikeouts are to a baseball pitcher what home runs are to a batter- the most spectacular possible evidence of skill. In his first regular major-league game last year Feller struck out 15 batters, one less than the American League record, set by Rube Waddell 28 years before. Modern major-league strikeout record is 17, made by Dizzy Dean in 1933. In his third week of major-league play, against the Philadelphia Athletics, Feller broke the American League record, equaled Dean...
...Sydney and lost the next two at Melbourne and Adelaide, had made only 239 runs in its first innings. It was now faced with the task of getting at least 365 runs in the second to make it necessary for Australia to bat again. England's best batter, W. H. Hammond, could make no more than 56 runs before he was caught out by Bradman. Next morning with two wickets left to fall, Australia's able slow bowler, L. O. B. Fleetwood-Smith, took them both before England could add to its overnight score of 165. Australia...
...Best batter of the team, and universally considered one of the most outstanding baseball players in College ranks, Bilodeau occupied the shortstop position and at the same time did relief pitching for the Varsity a year...
Raising one of their steel rams, the besiegers began to batter at a nailed-shut door. Down on them rained a shower of bolts, nuts, pulleys, bottles filled with nitric acid. Behind a barrage of tear gas, the officers joined battle. Strikers turned on the plant's ventilating system, cleared out the gas almost as fast as it came in. One excited deputy was burned with his own gas bomb. Acid containers hit two policemen, splashed them painfully. One striker quit the plant badly gassed. After two hours the officers ran out of tear gas and Sheriff Doolittle...