Word: batting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less surprising than the Yankees' collapse was the Tigers' spurt. Last spring few experts gave Detroit an outside chance to finish in the first division. They had plenty of punch at bat, but their infield was creaky, their pitching questionable...
...middle-aged Frank Merriwell, he neither drinks nor smokes, maintains a sporting shrine in his Brentwood home near Hollywood. Among the trophies on display in the shrine are the gloves Dempsey used to knock out Willard, the shoes Paddock wore when he broke the 100-yard dash record, the bat Babe Ruth employed when he knocked out his 60th home run in one season...
...Satan, that the millennium is drawing nigh, and that in the great battle of Armageddon-due any day now-the wicked will perish and Jehovah's Witnesses will be saved. "They do not wait to be thrown to the lions; they walk into the lions' den, and bat its occupants over the head with the complete works of Judge Rutherford...
Starting out with a meeting conducted by Commissar Leader of the Advance Front, Wings For America wanders into a radio studio where Lorna, thinly disguised as Miss X, is about to tell all about her investigations of the Commissar's Desperate Desmonds. Right off the bat a smoke bomb goes off in the studio, creates such an uproar that one of the Commissar's boys is able to make off with the Chicago Police Department plans for combating sabotage of American Defense preparations hitherto in the keeping of Lieut. Mulaney...
Joseph Michael ("Ducky") Medwick is one of the hardest-hitting outfielders in baseball. During eight seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals, he averaged .338 at bat, drove in 873 runs and scored 771 runs himself (including 145 homers). Last year, when Leo ("Lippy") Durocher left the Cardinals to become manager of the Dodgers, he yearned to take along Ducky, his longtime roommate and protege. Dodger President Larry MacPhail, a red-headed go-getter, wanted Medwick...