Word: batting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what they are about until they have done it. Some are firm lines with tiny hairs on them, like a cricket's thigh. Some are more delicate and hesitant, like timid creatures creeping from crannies. Some are wry and perverse, like a witch's pin or a bat's flight. None are straightforward or prosaic. Together, colored over and shaded in with pale washes, they create pictures of a world, half small-animal, half fairy, in which no one could fail to believe, if only because it is quaint, beautiful, impossible...
First Game. It was a muggy day. Kenesaw Mountain Landis ate ham sandwiches rapidly and had his picture taken. Jack Dempsey, spectator, twisted his battered face into a smile. Sombre Rogers Hornsby, manager and second baseman of the Cardinals, came up to bat, pushed back his cap, was cheered for two and a half minutes. The first and most exciting inning of the game ended with one run for each team. Thereafter Pitchers Pennock and Sherdel twisted their slow left handers over the corners of the plate, hot-dog venders dragged themselves along the aisles. In the sixth inning Baseman...
...frenzied welcome. Rain fell at midnight. It was still falling in the afternoon. Standing on the pitcher's mound, the only dry spot on the field, Jesse Haines, a garage keeper from Phillipsburg, Ohio, held the Yankees to five hits. Still unsatisfied, he grasped a slim yellow bat and drove one of the deliveries of his opponent, furtive "Dutch" Ruether, into the right-field bleachers for a home run. Score: St. Louis, 4; New York...
Fourth Game. Babe Ruth swung his bat in a smooth high arc and began to run while the ball he had hit rode smoothly over the bleachers and dropped into Grand Avenue outside the park. It was Ruth's afternoon. The day before he had proclaimed in colorful language his contempt for St. Louis; now he must make good or be derided. Furthermore an eleven-year-old boy dying of blood poisoning in Essex Fields, N. J., had sent him a telegram asking for a home run. The appeal was exactly the sort of thing to appeal to Ruth...
...Donovan Affair. Owen Davis, author of well over a hundred plays, is to be credited with having written what promises to be the biggest mystery play success since The Bat. The playwright has managed to put so much suspense and excitement into his three acts that you can readily forgive an occasional absudity here and there, as well as the undeniable weakness of the final unraveling of his mystery. The plot follows the formula carefully. A murder is committed at a dinner party, and one by one every member of the cast comes under suspicion. And then at the close...