Word: batting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protect the market district, start trucks moving. "Get the 'specials.' Let the blue coats go." yelled 5.000 rioters. From clubs and lengths of pipe the "specials" got a fierce drubbing. Every ambulance in Minneapolis was summoned to carry off the injured. A lusty striker with a baseball bat stepped up behind C. Arthur Lyman, graduate of Hotchkiss and Williams, onetime Guardsman and Wartime artillery officer, now vice president of American Ball Co. The striker swung his bat and Special Officer Lyman went down on the cobblestones with a crushed skull, never to rise again (see cut). Another special...
...convince Allied statesmen of the wisdom of lopping the ancient kingdom of Bohemia and surrounding Slavic territories from the prostrate body of Austro-Hungary to make a new republic. It so happened that this territory contained the rich rolling plains of Slovakia, the great Skoda munitions works, the potent Bat'a shoe factories, rich coal deposits, glass and steel works and the famed breweries of Pilsen...
...usual fielding standard--and the infield is not airtight yet, especially around second base. But Ben Prouty at second is a definite improvement, and little Mike Hovenanian may be the answer to the short stop enigma. That middle sack has been a problem all year. At bat things looked a lot better, with the Mitchelimen hitting three pitchers for 13 hits...
...himself as catcher, to be better able to keep an eye on his team. Tom Bilodean and Dick Walsh were pitching for the first year men, but in spite of their skill the former mentor of the team managed to garner two hits out of his four times at bat...
...neighboring plot the younger CRIMSON nine was practicing: our cubs as we affectionately call them. They were getting along in splendid fashion with a large crowd watching them whom suddenly a little urchin standing near third base called out: "Hey give us back our ball and bat. We wanna play by ourselves." Our men tested out some reserve who said his name was Morison but they were not satisfied and kept asking for their bat. This was finally returned to them and then the whole crowd suddenly disappeared...