Word: hitter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...argument but that the game has changed since "Home Run" Baker mad? his name by knocking 12 homeruns during the season of 1913. "Babe" Ruth knocked 60 in 1927. Young Outfielder Klein had hit 29 this season up to last weekend. In the old days, the good aver age hitter batted about 25% perfect (.250 in the tabulations). Today an average of .285 is only fair. About 116 batters in the two Big Leagues have surpassed .300 this year, with several of them up around .400.* A good average score used to be 4 runs to 3. A few weeks...
Batters. The hitters have been thoroughly enjoying themselves. Last weekend "Babe" Herman of Brooklyn was leading both leagues with an average of .404. Batter Herman's record is all the more remarkable in that he is practically a one-handed hitter. Just before bat touches ball he takes his right hand off the handle and is swinging only with his left arm at the moment of contact...
...their half of the frame the Blue warriors took revenge by pounding out four markers and sending Whitmore to the cool showers. He was succeeded by Ketchum who struggled along until the seventh when he gave way to a pinch hitter. In this frame seven more tallies rounded out the Blue total and brought first baseman Prior to the mound. He finished the game in good fashion...
Ticknor has developed into the team's most consistent extra base hitter. Of the 15 sateties he has garnered this year, seven of them have been good for more than one sack, and on four of them he has completed the circuit. McGrath is the leading run scorer and has also made more hits than any of his teammates...
...Senior year he was the leading hitter on the University nine and provided a powerful stimulus to the strong Crimson team with his excellent work behind the bat. Chauncey who was a Groton school graduate was also prominent in Freshman affairs being chairman of the Freshman Smoker Committee and also a member of the Freshman Executive Board. Though a member of the Class of 1928. Chauncey received his Harvard degree in 1927 and for the last two years has been at the Penn Charter school at Germantown...