Word: batters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outfield, there has also been plenty of switching. Only Phil Bernstein managed to secure his position in center field at the start and hold onto it. Right field will be filled by Seth Singleton, a very successful batter and fielder, who is sometimes too reckless...
When the umpire disallowed this, Meeham rushed to the scene to claim the ball was fair afer all. He soon shifted his ground to the stronger plea that the infield fly rule should be in force and the batter ruled automatically out. The umpire's apparent answer to this was, first of all, that he hadn't invoked the infield fly rule, which is left to his descretion, and secondly, that the rule didn't apply because the ball had bounced foul...
...varsity had a chance to add an insurance run in the sixth. Harrington blasted a triple to right, but was cut down at the place when batter Al Martin missed connections on an attempted squeeze...
...gave Cleveland fans a "bartenders' day," staged midget-auto races in the ballpark, and with a pennant winner (1948), posted a major-league record for season attendance that still stands. In St. Louis, he gave the fans clowns, once used a midget as lead-off batter (he drew a base on balls), even let spectators manage the team for several games by flashing "yes" and "no" cards to questions of strategy. Yet the carnival atmosphere was no substitute for success. The Browns did not win, and Veeck tried to get the franchise transferred to Minneapolis or Baltimore, even considered...
Elsewhere in western Pennsylvania and neighboring New York and Ohio, record rains (5 in. in 24 hours in Columbus) swished over frozen ground, ran off into rivers like the Olentangy, the Kokosing, the Chagrin and Racoon Creek, swelled them until they overflowed to flood scores of cities and towns, batter buildings with massive hunks of ice. Ohio's Governor Mike Di Salle and Pennsylvania's David Lawrence declared emergencies. In Columbus Mrs. Betty Montgomery, 59, a wheelchair-bound invalid, sat stolidly at her window, watched the Scioto River rising up her wall. When flood water reached the first...