Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slightly less pessimistic about the state of the church in the U.S. than he once was. "Modernism," he says, "is not nearly so belligerent as it was. The barrenness of it has been demonstrated." But, to a man strong in the fundamentals of the Gospel, the kid-glove handling of the question of sin in many U.S. pulpits is still hard to take. Says Macartney: "One reason why we have so few conversions is that we don't ask people to repent...
...Boston, after he finished his playing days for the Braves, Outfielder Tommy Holmes was close to being an idol. A sure hand in the field and a solid hitter (lifetime batting average: .303), Holmes hung up his playing glove at the end of the 1950 season. Last year he started out on a managerial career for the Brave farm club in Hartford, Conn., and loyal Brave fans confidently expected that he would soon be back in Boston...
...inning after inning, as batters gaped in slack-jawed amazement, Righthander Necciai smacked strike after strike into the catcher's glove. Some batters went down with their bats on their shoulders; others, swinging wildly, hit nothing but air. One batter did manage to nick the ball enough for an easy roller, and was thrown out by the shortstop. By the end of the eighth inning only three batters had reached first-one on a base on balls, one hit by a pitched ball, the third on an error. In the meantime, Necciai had struck out every other batter...
...minutes of trailing, the bookies continued intoning odds and grabbing money. The H.T.A.'s concern is understandable. In the past, nobblers (English version of U.S. fixers) have been known to ambush a favorite, or give a longshot an autoborne boost along the trail. Other nobblers, working hand in glove with bookies, have been jailed for relaying information, via walkie-talkie radio, from observation points along the trail...
Eddie grew up with a permanent chip on his shoulder. One schoolmate recalls that "he would fight at the drop of a hat -just for the hell of it." Another remembers: "I never saw him in the summer without a baseball glove, or in the winter without a soccer ball." (He was the high-scoring star of Northeast High School's championship soccer team.) Lester Owen, Eddie's high-school gym teacher, was impressed by the Stanky single-mindedness: "It was baseball that Eddie came to high school for. He said he was going...