Word: batting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nowadays the auto races are three times as popular as the trotters, for the artful speedsters have learned to go through fences without injury, are able to provide a breath-taking accident almost every race. Most hairraising spectacle of all was provided last week by Daredevil "Clem" Sohnn "the bat man," who thrice ascended in an airplane, thrice leaped out in midair, soaring and looping toward earth on his canvas wings (TIME, March...
...wished, Manager Cochrane could have supported his second contention with his first baseman, Henry Benjamin Greenberg, who is probably the outstanding player on the Tigers this year, certainly the leading homerun hitter in both leagues and the ablest Jew in baseball. A New Yorker who learned to bat with a broomstick in side-street one-o'-cat games, he was offered a job with the Yankees in 1930, shrewdly refused it because he foresaw small chance of replacing First Baseman Lou Gehrig. He quit New York University at the end of his first semester to join the Tigers...
...about enlarging the runways in the stands for World Series crowds. The Giant's pitching staff, previously impaired when Freddy Fitzsimmons broke his elbow fortnight ago, was promptly diminished to the danger point when Rookie Clydell Castleman, who had won eight games, lost two, broke his hand in batting practice. One major reason for the Giants' success so far this season, despite overconfidence and bad luck, has been their large, placid, blond centre fielder, Harry ("Hank") Leiber, whom any consensus of experts would name as the outstanding rookie of the year. Discovered by one-time Giant Pitcher Arthur...
...harried construction crews, burned bridges, sometimes attacked trains and towns. Merchant Otero put his sons in boarding school, but they ran away; he put them in St. Louis University, but they quickly got back to the hunting grounds that made them happy. Still a youngster, Miguel met Wild Bill, Bat Masterson, Mysterious Dave Mathers, Texas Jack, Buffalo Bill, Calamity Jane, Doc Holliday, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Pat Garrett, Clay Allison and dozens of the dance hall girls, known only by first names such as Liz,. Dolly, Steamboat, Trix, whom he was to recall pleasantly 60 years later...
Next followed a few representatives of '73, preceding a good number of the fifty-year class, who sported banners praising the author of "Casey at the Bat" and the famous '85 ball team, which won ten straight games, defeating Princeton, Dartmouth, and Yale. There followed a sizable representation of the classes of 1900 and 1905, both dressed in ordinary street clothes...