Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says, "but you forget bad field when I hit"). Catcher Bob Schmidt, 25, hit 14 homers as a rookie last year. Third Baseman Jim Davenport, 25, hits adequately (.256), fielded so brilliantly in his freshman season that he is already considered one of the major's best glove men. Switched to shortstop, Andre Rodgers, 24, a onetime Bahamas cricket player, seems finally to have solved big-league pitching, was leading the team in batting average (.414), as the Giants broke camp at week...
...want palm-tree justice," says one of Ayub's ministers, and a Western diplomat calls the new regime "a relaxed dictatorship." The velvet glove has been more apparent than the iron fist, and as a result some of the old black-marketing, corrupt ways were returning. But last week the government took its first decisive action against the corrupt in high places...
Fischer and Graney wrapped up matters with single goals in the third period. After he had moved back to defense, Duncan drove a shot from the left point on Van Gerbig, who dived to make a glove save. As the puck bounced loose, Fischer was again perfectly positioned for the rebound and jammed the disk into the left corner...
...fickle, well-fed goddess that Hollywood describes as public taste. For years, DeMille was Hollywood: he founded one of its first studios in a barn. When he went west from New York in 1913, head of a syndicate that included a struggling vaudeville producer named Jesse Lasky and a glove salesman named Sam Goldfish (later Goldwyn), it was enough that he had the drive and energy to put together The Squaw Man, Hollywood's first full-length flicker, with He-Man Dustin Farnum. By the time DeMille produced his fifth movie, The Man from Home...
...second period, was a beauty. Buddy Higginbottom passed out from the corner to Fischer, standing ten feet outside the crease. His on-the-ice backhander hit the near post and skittered past Girard. Fischer's second goal came on a 20-foot backhander which broke off the goalie's glove...