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Kinds of Defeat. As Honest Dickie Kerr recalls, afterwards all the high spots of his career were involved with a sort of defeat. It was Dickie Kerr who threw a two-and-two pitch to a burly batter named Babe Ruth one afternoon in 1921 in the old Polo Grounds. And the Babe belted it so far it set a special kind of record: it broke the hands of an outfield clock some 500 ft. from the plate. It was Pitcher Kerr who asked his boss Charles ("The Old Roman") Comiskey for a raise after winning 40 games...
...Batter: Musial, St. Louis...
During the confusion, one of the non-Harvard customers attempted to batter two policemen with a coffee-pot, successfully sending one of the officers to the hospital...
...What may prove to be one of the most expensive fouls in baseball history was a long fly by a Milwaukee batter one day in 1955. In the scramble to catch it, a fan knocked down Mrs. May Lee, 69, and broke a couple of her ribs. The Braves refused to pay May Lee's $100 hospital bill on the ground that fans assume certain risks when they buy their tickets. Last week the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld an award of $3,675 to Mrs. Lee on the ground that the Braves' County Stadium ushers were negligent...
...this point, cleanup batter Kent Hathaway stepped into one of Quirk's fastballs and belted a high drive over the center fielder's head. Two runs scored as the hit went for a stand-up triple, and Hathaway came home himself with the fifth run a few moments later