Word: batting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Timely hitting" was the way laconic Manager Red Schoendienst explained his team's 6-1 record and its lofty position atop the National League. The adjective was too mild. In seven games, the Cards had bettered opposing pitchers for 85 hits and 52 runs; the whole team was batting a fantastic .322. Most sensational of the St. Louis sluggers was Outfielder Lou Brock, who switched to a heavier bat this spring to cut down on his tendency to overswing, last week ranked No. 2 in the National League in hitting (at .417), No. 1 in home runs (with...
Despite the loss, Coach Norm Shepard had at least one good reason to keep smiling. Captain Joe O'Donnell hung on to his re-found batting eye, garnering three hits in three times at bat. The senior first baseman also came up with a near-sensational catch of a foul...
...Yankees looked sharp at bat too. All of the starting players got hits, six of them in a row in the third inning. Mickey Mantle played well in his debut at first base but was taken out of the game in the fifth when he aggravated his old leg injury...
According to Interior Secretary Stew art L. American Udall, no species - 14 fewer than 78 mammals, native 36 birds, six reptiles and 22 varieties of fish - are on the brink of vanishing from the earth forever. In almost every case, their deadly enemy is man. The Indiana bat, for instance, is in danger because the caves in which it lives have become tourist attractions and because of acts of vicious vandalism (two boys killed 10,000 in Carter Cave, Kentucky, pulling them off the ceiling and trampling them to death). The Florida alligators are on the decline because...
Later F found herself in a secret bat cavern deep in the mountains nearby Paris. She wore a circlet of peacock feathers about her neck and the words "Property of the batboys" were written in silver tape in a heart shape around her navel...