Word: batting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today the freshman racquets team will bat squash balls around the courts of Hemenway with Deerfield Academy in competition, but since it is undefeated in collegiate and scholastic play, Coach Corey Wynn is unworried...
...agreed that baseball playing was a matter of adaptaing one's individual reflexes to the various aspects of the game. People with good reflexes permitted to develop in their own peculiar way become good baseball players; those with bad coordination spend all their days trying to master a fungo bat...
...English Placement, perhaps something on the lines of the old College Entrance Examination Board Achievement tests. Such an exam would be more difficult to compose and correct, but it would certainly split up the course into sections of comparable ability. Many students might start right off the bat with English Ab. Harried section men would find themselves successfully teaching a whole class, not part of one. And a lot of Freshmen would learn a great deal more from the College's largest course, now far too clumsy to dodder past anything but its required fundamentals...
...visiting Boston Red Sox treated him with proper respect, crippled or not. Twice he came to bat with runners on base, and a buzz of excitement rippled through Yankee Stadium and down the pitcher's back. Twice he banged in a run. The third time, the crowd let go an angry bellow: the Sox, trying to protect a slim lead, sent him to first base on a pass instead of letting him swing at the ball. Joe scored the run that put the Yankees out in front, anyway...
...knock one out of the park. Whether at Yankee Stadium or on the road, a reverent roar greets him as he strides to the plate. Joe tells himself that the pitchers should be more worried than he is, and they usually are. He is a cool, relaxed figure, his bat held high and motionless, as he waits for the ball to zip in from the pitcher's box, 60 ft. away, at something like 91 m.p.h...