Word: batting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only a training-camp game, but the big, rawboned rookie was understandably nervous. By acclamation, U.S. sport writers had made Clint Hartung the prize rookie of the year. Before his turn at bat last week in Phoenix, Ariz., he squatted down, twice picked up a handful of dirt to dry his sweating palms. Then Clint Hartung stepped to the plate for his first game in a New York Giant uniform...
...Texas farm boy felt on the spot, and showed it-at bat, by swinging at bad balls; in the outfield (where the Giants are trying him, instead of as a pitcher), by misjudging fly balls. He also showed a tendency to go for a line drive with his head averted, and a disinclination to block a bouncing ball the way all good outfielders do-with his body as well as his glove...
Soon came more boarding parties, heavily armed. Fierce fights broke out as the immigrants refused to permit the British Navy to take over. While passengers clawed and pummeled the sailors, the ship zigzagged through converging Navy craft. Finally the Arlosoroff scraped aground, just 100 yards off Bat Galim, Haifa's seashore suburb. Behind the barbed wire on the beach, hundreds of Jews waved handkerchiefs at the immigrants, cheered as a dozen leaped overboard and struggled ashore-to certain capture. On the ship the fight continued...
...news spread to Haifa. Thousands stopped work and swarmed angrily toward Bat Galim. They passed Barclay's Bank Building, shattered by a bomb soon after the ship's interception (two Jews were killed). Then they ran into tough, maroon-bereted British paratroopers, who barred their way. Jews and soldiers traded insults. Then the Jews went away into the dusk of Sabbath eve. Four hours after the first encounter aboard the Arlosoroff the fight went out of the immigrants on the ship...
...before wicket: when the umpire rules that the batter's leg - -and not his bat - kept the ball from hitting the wicket...