Word: batting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small grocery stores, in all sections of Baltimore, have plenty of butter and eggs to sell? . . . Don't you think it's swell to be free all summer, to have a good time and not be forced to goosestep around with a gun instead of a baseball bat? . . . Did you observe, if you saw the Orioles play, that a fellow named Joe Greenberg was right in there with the- rest of the boys? . . . Did you visit the zoo at Druid Hill Park? That's the closest thing we have to a concentration camp...
Convict Richard Whitney, onetime (1910) member of Harvard's varsity crew, onetime (1930-35) President of the New York Stock Exchange, in a game at Sing Sing, played first base for the prison's "school team," batted .667 in three times at bat, made no errors, stood a chance of promotion to the prison varsity...
...Casey?" wasp-waisted little wives whispered into their husbands' sideburns as young De Wolf Hopper recited the last stanza of a poem called Casey at the Bat in Wallack's Theatre on Broadway one summer night in 1888. It was a gala baseball night in honor of the visiting Chicago White Stockings and the management had clipped the tragi-comic verses out of the San Francisco Examiner for young Hopper to deliver as an added fillip between the acts of the operetta, Prince Methusalem...
...ball parks, was introduced to the U. S. public on a radio program. Last week, the Baltimore Orioles, whose feats have been almost as integral a part of baseball folklore as Casey's, invited the latest Maryland celebrity to stage a revival of Casey-at-the-bat as a prologue to a night game with the Jersey City Giants. It rained on "Casey Night." Dan Casey, neatly garbed in a business suit and Oriole cap, stepped gingerly to the plate, wrapped his gnarled fingers round a bat for the first time in 40 years. From 2,000 throats...
Observers agreed that scarcely ever was there a more crucial pitch as Deacon hurler Dick Mudge tossed the fatal offering to Murphy. "Maybe I had my eyes closed," the Bellboy batsman said lost night. "I thought I was sighting along the bat...