Word: bunting
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...that the 15 million U.S. Negroes would never fight in a war against Soviet Russia. But, as many a big-league pitcher could have told the committee, Jack Roosevelt Robinson, organized baseball's first Negro and the National League's leading batter, was never a guy to bunt a fat pitch with the bases loaded. Testifying before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Jackie Robinson quickly dismissed Robeson's statement as "silly." But there was something else he wanted...
Both Turner and his mound rival, lefty Charlie Murphy, got off to shaky starts and were hampered by infield errors. A double play got Turner out of possible trouble in the first inning and Harvard went to work on Murphy in its half of the inning. A bunt single by Mort Dunn, walks to Walt Coulson, Herbie Neal, and Cliff Crosby, a single past third by Ernie Mannino plus a wild pitch and a passed ball netted the Crimson three unearned runs...
...kind that is a common occurrence at the Polo Grounds. But not Fred Boysen. He cried out for a doctor, was taxied to a hospital. There, according to an attendant, he achieved "a couple of really impressive faints." In less time than it takes to beat out a bunt, a lawyer was at his bedside, making talk of a damage suit, and helping Boysen tell his story to reporters...
...Akillian led off the ninth inning with a single. Charlie Walsh grounded out, Jack Donelan and Bill Hickey singled. Al Switzer got on through an error by the shortstop. Charlio Cabot doubled in the tying runs, and Cook brought Switzer in with the winning run on a squeeze bunt which went for a single...
Lowell caginess again made the difference: a stolen base figured in each of the Bellboys' score-producing attacks. In the fifth inning Fred Donahoe, Lowell first-baseman, reached first on a bunt, stole second and third, and scored as Harry McKean grounded out. John Goldsmith scored the other Lowell run in the sixth on a delayed steal home...