Word: batterings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Terriers' winning run came after Reilly walked Charley Espanet, the first batter to face him in the tenth. Dick Mills sacrificed Espanet to second, and Bill Gibson, a heady catcher, drove in the crucial score with a single to left...
While regular umpires will arbitrate baseball games, softballers must provide their own martyrs to the cause from non-playing members, and in addition must carry on without the benefit of stolen bases, bunts, or leads off base before the pitch reaches the batter. Seven innings will suffice in both hard and softball, while the usual four and a half or five frames will constitute an official game...
...activities, that the press has not yet accepted the full measure of its responsibility to the public. Such a thesis, coming not from professional detractors of the American press but from a competent commission headed by Robert Hutchins and financed largely by Time, Inc., should enjoy enough stature to batter down the walls of heretofore skeptical minds on the subject...
...international incident in 1933 with "body-line bowling": he tried to knock down Australian batsmen with beanballs, and sometimes succeeded. (The Australian Government complained to Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.) There is no foul line, so batsmen can hit in all directions. In placing fielders to take advantage of a batter's weakness, the bowlers can move a man up as close as ten feet from the batsman, in suicidal positions known as "silly leg" and "silly mid on." Cricket moves at less than half the pace of baseball, but-say its partisans -demands more science and judgment...
...before wicket: when the umpire rules that the batter's leg - -and not his bat - kept the ball from hitting the wicket...