Word: hitter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home town team. His Teutonic mother & father were caretakers at a Columbia fraternity house. Son Lou went to Columbia, played on the ball team, signed a contract with the Yankees. Babe Ruth coached him in batting: in a year or two Gehrig was, next to Ruth, the hardest hitter in the most potent batting machine baseball had ever know:n. In 1927, Gehrig was voted most valuable player in the American League. He batted in nine runs in the 1928 World Series (a record): he tied Babe Ruth's record of hitting four homers in a World Series the same...
Other candidates for phenomenon are: Australia's Jack Crawford, fireball player of the 1928 and 1930 Davis Cup matches; England's Frederick J. Perry, unbeaten ping pong player, Herbert Wilbur ("Bunny") Austin and C. R. D. Tuckey, British Army mystery man, a harder hitter than the other Englishmen...
...best. That came the third afternoon, after Mrs. Hoover had seen Allison & Van Ryn win the doubles, 6-2, 6-1, 6-2, when young Frank Shields, substituted for Allison to show what he could do, beat Wright 8-6, 6-1, 8-10, 6-1. Hardest hitter in the U. S., Shields made it clear that Allison, whose game is amazingly improved this spring, was not yet sure of his place as No. 2 singles man on the team. When Vines disposed of Rainville, 6-3, 6-3. 6-4, the series was formally over-all 5 matches...
...Pinch hitter" (emergency batsman) was corned by Manager McGraw to describe Samuel Strang Nicklin, oldtime Giant (later a concert singer) who, aged 56, died last week in Chattanooga...
...more than 30 years the lovely Kathe Schratt was the great & good friend of His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Franz Josef. Moreover she remained on the very best of terms with the Empress Elizabeth until the hitter's tragic death...