Word: batters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recipe. In West Harrison, Ind., police searched for the vandals who broke into a store, smashed 48 dozen eggs, added several sacks of flour, salt and sugar to the batter, sprinkled liberally with pork loins, hams, bacon slabs, 48 roasting chickens...
Catcher Pearson dies, but by that time Narrator Wiggen and Author Harris have made their point: scratch a ballplayer and you find a human being, a taxpayer, a batter in the game of life whose exhilaration at pitching a shutout or swatting a homer with the bases full is apt to be balanced at any time by an ignominious strikeout or a sad walk to the showers. As the theme of a novel, this carries its own banality if only because no decent reader would want to quarrel with it. What makes Bang the Drum Slowly unique in current fiction...
Then Connie moved up right behind the batter. That close, he could not resist the temptation to tip bats and trip batters. A good catcher but not a great one, he was tricky and tough enough to move up through the bush leagues into the big time. In that era of fierce competition and low salaries (he got $200 a month in 1886), Connie jumped from the solidly entrenched National League to the short-lived Brotherhood, then to the Pittsburgh Nationals, where he played until 1893, when a broken ankle sent him on to an unparalleled career as manager...
...foreign ministry last week, a spokesman read a propaganda pronouncement for Latin American consumption. It was slightly disguised as Premier Nikolai Bulganin's answers to questions submitted by Vision, a Spanish-language fortnightly edited in Manhattan. Vision tossed up nice, soft pitches, and Bulganin, or whoever the batter really was, swung for the fences...
...nice if intercollegiate boxing could come back to Harvard. Fewer people get hurt in boxing than in almost any other sport. It was only illegalized when colleges began to import subsidized amateur champions, who would batter the average college boxer to pieces," Lamar stated. "In the ordinary padded glove fight no one gets hurt...