Word: batting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five years later, a full-fledged priest, he returned with his family to Dallas, moved next door to the cathedral. But he could not sleep. Every night someone stole into the cathedral and started tolling the bell. One night, Father Swartsfager hid a baseball bat under his cassock, waited to ambush the bell-ringer. Soon, a tall boy crept out of the shadows. The priest grabbed...
Even before he was inaugurated Vice President five months ago, Uruguayans stuck the nickname "Trumancito" on Luis Batlle (pronounced Bat-zhay) Berres. It would not be long, they agreed, before he stepped into the shoes of the President-elect, old (71), frail Tomás Berreta. When Berreta flew to the U.S. to visit President Truman in February, Uruguayans wondered if it would be too much for him. When he took office in March, they wondered how long he could live. Soon he had strength enough only to conduct affairs of. state at his bedside. Last week in a Montevideo...
Massive, left-handed Ted Kluszewski is one of the clumsiest first basemen the Memphis Chicks have ever seen. He approaches batted and thrown balls with a kind of baffled defiance, often stops them with his chest or his face. But last week, big 6 ft. 2 in. "Klu" was the talk of the Southern Association. In an afternoon's double-header with New Orleans, in ten times at bat he hit a home run, three triples, two doubles and two singles. His day's work put him far out in front as the league's best batter...
...onetime Indiana University football end, is playing his second season of pro ball. He is on option from the Cincinnati Reds, who gave him a $15,000 bonus for signing. But before he moves up to the majors, he will first have to convince someone that he can bat in more runs than he lets...
Visitors, on entering, found themselves dodging a whirling lighthouse powered by an old Victrola motor. They moved on to a "Hall of Superstition," containing a 14-foot hand made of chicken wire, plaster and canvas. In a hole in the wall, an owl, a bat and a raven played whist. In another room, artificial rain fell steadily and one dry corner was reserved for a billiard table where passersby could stop and play...