Word: batting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spalding was pitcher and manager of the old Chicago team for which "Pop" Anson and Evangelist Billy Sunday played. It was Spalding's Chicago team which first appeared in regulation baseball uniforms. It was Spalding's company which standardized early baseballs and developed the modern baseball bat with the pronounced bulge in its business...
...that time, O. W. Keliher, the new coach for the second nine, will be introduced. The usual formalities of speeches will be omitted. One of the features of the evening will be the presentation of the Wingate Trophy and the Wendell Bat. Both these trophies are awarded annually. The former is given to the best all-around player on the team. The Wendell Bat is awarded on the basis of a point system. One point is credited to a player for every safe arrival at first base, sacrifice hit, and stolen base, and for every run scored...
Chauve-Souris, internationally applauded Russian "Bat Theatre," has this year gone stale, sterile, incredibly flat...
Seven years ago the smart and sprightly Russian Bat flapped over U. S. cities with tempestuous and most merited éclat. As each number was introduced by the droll, Cheshire-cat-faced Nikita Balieff, an ticipant audiences rocked with a foretaste of merriment which always followed. The music of the "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" penetrated every stratum of U. S. society. Not to have seen the "Wooden Soldiers" or "Katinka" or later "Katerina" was the height of rusticity or indifference...
...acts are shoddy reach-me-downs from former successes. They are not clipped short before they begin to pall. The music is a damp package of the old fireworks. Several of the set tings, notably "The Celebrated Popoff's Porcelains," are direct steals from such past Bat Theatre triumphs as the "Dutch Platter Porcelains...