Word: batting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able to afford it. And for this reason it becomes a point of honor not to let the team down, not to let Jack Carr down, and not to let the H. A. A. down. For it was only very recently that the H. A. A. went to bat to save soccer from the axe of University Hall...
...quite so commendable, however, are the additions made in the process of translation. A great quantity of extraneous beings: gnomes, bat-like men out of the funny papers, rubber-skinned monsters, all thrust in their grimacing faces and do their bits. One feels that they ought either to be Shakespearean or original, and it is just a little jarring to see the rubber men do a kind of Apache dance with the faerles, and then disappear in a manner so unnatural even for a fantasy that the brainless noisemaker behind us was led to comment, "I know...
That statement split Commissioner Carpenter and Pacific Mutual's old management. Promptly to bat went four officers and directors of old Pacific Mutual, including 73-year-old George Ira Cochran, president of the company for 30 years until last autumn when he was moved to the chairman's seat to make room for President Kemp. In a complaint to set aside the reorganization, they accused Commissioner Carpenter of inexperience, charged that he had sprung the reorganization on them without due warning. Next move of Commissioner Carpenter was to file a $511,650 suit for misuse of Pacific Mutual...
...interested to learn that Joe Di Maggio hit two homeruns in one inning "for a total of eight bases." . . . Why not add that he hit these homeruns with his bat, while standing at home plate. It would also be interesting to know (if you have the data) how many times Di Maggio, or any other baseballer, has hit two homeruns for a total of seven bases-or nine...
...training season last spring when Di Maggio first bruised an ankle and then, while treating the injury, managed to get his foot burned by a sun lamp. He made his debut at the Yankee Stadium three weeks late, got a triple and two singles in six turns at bat...