Word: batting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stanky trotted smugly off to first base, after first carefully dropping the bat, as usual, squarely across home plate, as an added insult to the enemy. Pirate Catcher Al Lopez hurt his toe kicking it halfway to the pitcher's box. Stanky's fourth walk soon became Brooklyn's winning...
...meantime, Captain Joe Patterson, always alert to potential competitors for his Daily News, had run PM off the New York stands. "It's kind of like hazing a new boy," said Patterson, taking free cuts in the air (with a boy's baseball bat, when Ingersoll went to call...
Besides their awesome exhibition at the bat, they played errorless ball; only the pitching, ordinarily the strong point of the team, was on the weak side. Joe Phelan who started the game did not have his stuff and in the third inning was removed in favor of Johnny Knowles, who, in spite of the tremendous lead, also had his troubles...
They tried batting left handed. They tried batting loft handed with one hand. They tried running backwards. They tried running backwards on one leg. Eventually they got around to using the bat as a billiard cue and fielding the ball from the tail...
...Wait until next year," he added, "we're going to bat with five cent cigars, and they'll get shorter every inning 'cause we're gonna smoke 'em in between...