Word: batting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happy one. Manager McCarthy had not only fined him $250 for jumping the club but had hired rollicking Rollie Hemsley to take his place. Hemsley, recently cast off by the Cincinnati Reds for his dismal record of 13 hits in 115 times at bat this season, seemed an unlikely squat-in for Bill Dickey. But on his first day with the Yankees, catching all innings of a doubleheader on the hottest day of the year, Hemsley got five hits in eight times up. For the next five games in a row, he hit safely. By last week...
...best part of Pride of the Yankees is its grade-A love story. Cooper meets his future wife (Teresa Wright) at the White Sox ball park in Chicago. It is his first chance to bat for the Yankees. On his way to the plate he pratfalls on the carefully laid-out row of bats in front of the dugout. "Tanglefoot!" cries Teresa. He gets even by marrying...
...Bat. The first, played in Manhattan's Polo Grounds between a thunderstorm and a blackout, was all-civilian: between picked teams of American and National Leaguers. The Americans, hopping on the National's super-duper Pitcher Morton Cooper before he had worked the dampness out of his mighty right arm, scored three runs in the first inning, starting with a homer by Cleveland's Lou Boudreau on the second pitch. That was enough to win the game (3-to-1) and the chance to represent the big leagues in the skirmish with Uncle Sam's club...
...proceeds of all three games was $171,000, more than half of which goes to Baseball's bat-&-ball fund (for the armed forces), the rest to Army & Navy Relief...
...Friday was anything but a thriller, except for Thompson's performance. The former member of Seranton in the Eastern League and Greenboro in the Piedmont threw the home team batters the fastest ball they had seen for a long time, and then turned around to lead his team at bat with a solid single and a two-run homer in the ninth over Ned Fitzgibbons' head. Although Thompson struck out four, his lack of practice was evident in the eight passes he issued...