Word: bradman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the match, the embarrassed chairman of the Nottinghamshire Club apologized to Don Bradman, Australia's cricketing Babe Ruth, for the crowd's behavior. Bradman could afford to be gracious. His bully boys, with the help of bumpers, were leading England (which hadn't had its second innings yet) by 478 runs...
...eyebrows said to a chum: "We didn't ought to have sent them." In a swank Pall Mall club, an elderly gentle man turned from the ticker mumbling: "Damn bad luck." All England knew and feared the name of Australia's great batsman, a wiry stockbroker, Don Bradman. With his help, last week, the Australian eleven held the British to a draw. The Australians had already won two and tied one, so (though there was a fifth match to play) the English had no chance of coming out even. London's sensitive press complained about Australia...
...Slug, Please. Sometimes one batsman, alternating with a teammate, stays UD all afternoon. A 'half-century (50 runs) causes decorous applause; a century a little more. Australia's Bradman, the greatest player of the game today, now making a comeback after getting fibrositis while in the Army, once made 334 runs in an innings. Slugging for the fences, a la baseball, is considered unrefined...
...took it mighty hard when Lou Gehrig's diamond career was ended by rare, fatal amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. So did Australia, shortly afterward, when tissue-swelling fibrositis crippled its sports hero, Cricketer Don Bradman. Bradman sadly put away his bats, fought to shake off his affliction, slowly succeeded. Last week, at 37, he again stepped to the wicket, captaining South Australia v. Queensland, batted placements between fieldsmen with oldtime perfection...
...BRADMAN...