Word: batting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cure. In Newport, R.I., when a spider landed on ten-year-old Patricia Ann Toppa's head, her friend, John O'Brien, 12, gallantly rushed to the rescue, knocked out both spider and Patricia Ann with his baseball bat...
...slump began in last year's World Series, and a winter's brooding about it didn't help. Before the 1947 season was well along, American League pitchers, who once quivered at the sight of Ted and his big bat, confidently fed him inside pitches -the kind he used to pull into right field for singles and doubles. His smashes dropped harmlessly into the gloves of fielders, shifted into a solid defense wall to the right every time Williams came to bat...
...week, with parade, outlandish costumes, drum, corps and sore feet. But at the 49th annual encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans (average age: 72), there was little tipping and no water-squirting. The boys of Santiago Bay, San Juan hill and the Philippines just wanted to sit and bat the breeze about their experiences back...
...inning relief stint against the Pirates-on a day when Kiner & Co. really had their hitting shoes on-he gave up 10 hits and 8 runs. He couldn't ever do much worse than that, and he looked as though he could do quite a lot better. His batting, on the other hand, could not be improved on: his first time at bat, Bankhead fouled off several pitches, then banged a home run into the left field stands...
...Bat met ball with a crack that sent 32,000 Brooklyn fans into an uproar. It was the league-leading Dodgers' first home game in three weeks, they led 1 to 0 and First Baseman Jackie Robinson had lined a drive to left center that looked like a sure triple. In center field, the Philadelphia Phillies' fleet Harry Walker started moving fast. As ball and outfielder converged under the floodlights, Walker pushed his spiked shoes in front of him, dropped to his rump, began to slide. At the last instant he stuck his gloved hand forward and gathered...