Word: battering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through the late summer stretch while the Cubs and Cardinals helped put each other out of the race. All told, the Giants made only 742 runs all season. The team has the league's leading home run hitter in Melvin Ott and Manager Terry is a dependable batter but most of its games have been won by tight fielding and smart pitching. If one run was often enough to beat the Giants, one run was even more often enough to win for them. Trying to pick the World Series winner last week, baseball experts quickly boiled it down...
Baseball's greatest batter is also baseball's iron man. Lou Gehrig is the son of a German janitor who once worked in a Columbia University fraternity house. Lou got a scholarship at Columbia when the fraternity house manager, who had become Columbia's Athletic Director, recognized Mr. Gehrig in the crowd at a high school football game in which little Louie was performing. Yankee scouts spotted him when he was still in college. On June 1, 1925, he replaced Walter Pipp at first base. From then through last week's games, Gehrig has not been...
...Batter Gehrig takes boyish pride in banging a baseball as far, and running around the bases as quickly, as possible. Nothing so unsubtle would suit solemn Pitcher Hubbell. A baseball sadist, he prefers to let a batter tap out a grounder which is almost but not quite good enough to get him to first base if he runs his fastest. When forced to effect a strikeout, Hubbell does so as slowly and as painfully as possible. In the offseason, Pitcher Hubbell's amusement is hunting. When pitching, his cheeks look drawn, his trousers hang down far below his knees...
Most amazing feature of the Giants' climb this season has been the fact that it exactly reverses their procedure in 1934 and 1935, when they had long early-season leads, slumped in September. What started the climb was possibly a system instituted by Manager Bill Terry whereby a batter got a $2 prize if he delivered a hit when one was needed, a $2 fine if he failed...
...water holes and mud huts known as Sassa Baneh. There lean, wily Ras Nassibu had stationed legions of his best men, entrenched in an elaborate series of fortifications dug under direction of the onetime Turkish General Wehib Pasha. Four columns under General Graziani were attempting to surround the town, batter it to submission. Charging again & again through thorn bushes and over huge boulders, men from Brooklyn, Chicago, San Francisco fell never to rise again, for leading the central column under a General Frusci was a regiment composed largely of Italian-American volunteers...