Word: buntings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Takizo Matsumoto is a Diet member and a longtime baseball enthusiast (ever since he was a student at Harvard 20 years ago). In Tokyo last week he was watching some college students practicing. The coach signaled for a bunt, but the player whacked the ball into right field. Takizo Matsumoto went up to the boy. "Didn't you see the coach calling for a bunt?" he asked. The boy shrugged. "Sure I saw him," he said. "But is this not a free democracy...
Against the Quakers, the Varsity scored single runs in the first and second innings, but Penn came back with markers in the second, third and fourth--the winning tally on a squeeze bunt--to nudge Dolph Samboraki's men. McCuney, who lost a 2 to 1 decision to Red Connolly early in April, set the Crimson down with only one hit in the last seven inning...
...soon everybody was doing it. The iffy New York Giants clouted six in one game against the Dodgers. The Reds' Eddie Miller, a fine shortstop but not much of a hitter, busted four in six days. The Boston Red Sox' third-baseman, Eddie Pellagrini, was ordered to bunt and socked a homer over the fence. Said he, after trotting shamefaced around the bases: "I'm sorry ... I just don't know my own strength...
...collequium committee is composed of Chairman emmons, Frederick V. Bunt, Gordon Mckay Professor of Applied Physics, and Professor Chaffee...
...just one in the first two games. In the third game he finally bunted an easy roller down the third base line-and wound up, grinning and a little ashamed of himself, on first base. The bunt set off the mightiest roar heard in Fenway Park-and St. Louis modified its radical "Williams" defense. But Lone Wolf Williams might have to do a lot of talking before the Red Sox or any other team pays him the $80,000 he wants in 1917. Said Babe Ruth, the only baseballer ever to get $80,000 in one season: "A great hitter...