Word: batterings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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gillette, n. Fast pitch near batter's whiskers...
...baseball fan knows 1) that Mr. Roosevelt's role in "waiting it out" was that of a batter rather than a pitcher, and 2) that pop bottles are traditionally reserved for umpires...
...their special brand of umpire-baiting, draw larger crowds than Softball's Di Maggios. No one knows how many casual customers became confirmed the day Umpire Wilson was thus bawled out by an exasperated lady catcher: "Listen, big boy, if you'd take your lamps off the batter's knees long enough to look around, maybe you'd see more of these pitches coming over as strikes...
...complain about the weeds in your garden. Eat them. There is nothing quite like a tossed weed salad, preceded by an entree of burdock stems in batter, and topped off by cattail-pollen pancakes...
Berg, who seems to like the warm weather, twirled his second shutout in four days, and was in superb form. Sixteen straight batters faced him and sat down before Husky left-fielder Hank Bartelloni bunted toward first. Berg made the play to Bob Slattery just a tick after Bartelloni had crossed the bag. It was a hit beyond doubt. The next batter promptly banged into a Berg-to-Gleason-to Slattery double play...