Word: batters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since stopped swinging for the fences. In the last weeks of the season he had been walloping hits through the infield with increasing regularity, hitting the ball wherever it was pitched. Puzzled pitchers could scarcely sneak a bad ball past him; he was turning into the best bad-ball batter since the great Ducky Medwick. His average climbed steadily...
...Batter Up. Nothing happened for a moment until Montgomery belatedly flagged Ike with a white handkerchief, and the President broke into a broad grin. The heart of Ike's speech was his program. The program, he said, had been contained in 64 proposed bills. Said Ike: "Now 54 of them were enacted into law. We didn't always make home runs but we did have 54 hits . . . Now that, after all, is a batting average of .830. And any baseball fan will tell you, that's pretty good going in any league." He recalled some...
Team: New York (by four games) Pitcher: Wilson, Milwaukee (7-0) Batter: Snider, Brooklyn (.353) Runs Batted In: Musial...
Team: Cleveland (by 2½ games) Pitcher: Consuegra, Chicago (14-3) Batter: Noren, New York (.337) Runs Batted In: Minoso...
...pitchers a smaller strike zone. Otherwise, I let Willie's instincts alone. Hit the kid a fly with a couple of men on and he'll peg to the right base without thinking. Maybe I'll tell him where to play for this or that batter, or when to wait out a pitcher. That's all. Hell, I learn about baseball just by watching...