Word: batting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston debut yesterday afternoon was spectacular. Relieving Jimmy Foxx late in the game he went to bat only twice but singled in his first trip to the plate and tripled the next time up to drive in two runs...
Since "the Lupe" joined the Sox in Cleveland on September 12 he has been at bat 16 times, knocked out eight hits for four runs and leads the team in batting with an average...
...Harry F. Guggenheim (see p. 54}, chairman of the "Wings for Willkie" com mittee, achieved a low point in defense debate, confusing the civilian CAB's apprentice-pilot-training program with the wholly separate advanced training of com bat pilots and calling it "mass murder." The week's actual defense progress...
Died. Ernest Lawrence ("Phinney") Thayer, 77, bronzed, snow-haired author of the famed doggerel, Casey at the Bat; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Still engraved in schoolboy hearts of the '90s is its closing quatrain...
...will be levied . . . have chiefly prevented the execution of these [Defense] contracts. . . . Definite tax legislation . . . will benefit every factory that may be called upon." Whether the excess-profits tax was premature or not, it served one good purpose. Business was finding out what the score was before stepping to bat...