Word: hitter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baer fought Frankie Campbell in San Francisco, knocked him out in the fifth round. Campbell failed to recover consciousness, died the next day. Baer was suspended for a year. When he returned to the ring, he had a new manager, Ancil Hoffman, and the reputation of being the hardest hitter since Jack Dempsey. After a year in which he lost fights to Ernie Schaaf, Tommy Loughran, Johnny Risko and Paulino Uzcudun he began to justify that reputation. In a return fight with Ernie Schaaf, he gave his opponent a terrific drubbing, knocked him unconscious for three hours. A year...
While the Varsity is entertaining B. U. this afternoon, the Freshman diamonders will entertain Thayer Academy. Tomorrow they will face B. U. at Riverside. Tom Bilodeau, heavy hitter of the yearlings, who can play almost any one of the nine positions of a baseball team and play them well, is the leading star of the yearlings at the moment. He's the best looking baseball player-to enter Harvard in several years...
...game was not yet out of danger. In their last half, Washington filled the bases with one out and Pinch-hitter Cliff Bolton went to bat. Out from the Giants' bench raced Charley Dressen. a substitute third baseman who had not had his hands on the ball throughout the series. He waylaid Manager Terry. "Play back. Bill," he begged. "I know this guy Bolton from the minors. He hits hard but he's the slowest man in the league. Play him for a double play!" Astonished, Terry obeyed, ordered his infielders back. True to Dressen's word...
...harder hitting team and, man for man, more impressive on the strength of batting and fielding averages, the Senators this year developed a crack centre fielder, Fred Schulte, to replace Sam West whom Owner Clark Griffith surprisingly traded last spring. Their young first baseman, Joe Kuhel, is a hard hitter and usually a good base-runner though he nearly delayed the Senators' pennant-clinching last week by falling asleep on third base in the important game with St. Louis. Teams which function unexpectedly in the regular season may function even more strangely when they play against each other...
...first game lasted 18 innings. Carl Hubbell, pitching for the Giants, allowed six hits, no bases on balls and only one batter to reach third base. James Carleton, pitching for the Cardinals, did almost as well until the 17th inning when he was taken out for a pinch-hitter. With Haines pitching for St. Louis in the 18th, Moore got a base on balls and scored, with two out, on a single by Second Baseman Critz...