Word: hitter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wished, Manager Cochrane could have supported his second contention with his first baseman, Henry Benjamin Greenberg, who is probably the outstanding player on the Tigers this year, certainly the leading homerun hitter in both leagues and the ablest Jew in baseball. A New Yorker who learned to bat with a broomstick in side-street one-o'-cat games, he was offered a job with the Yankees in 1930, shrewdly refused it because he foresaw small chance of replacing First Baseman Lou Gehrig. He quit New York University at the end of his first semester to join the Tigers...
Ever since a khaki-colored Detroit Negro made it clear by a long string of knockout victims climaxed by Primo Carnera that he was the most devastating hitter among heavyweight pugilists since Jack Dempsey, a smoking question in the prizefight business has been whether or not Joe Louis (pronounced Lewis) can take a punch as well as give one. The difficulty has been caused by the fact that none of Louis' adversaries, since he turned professional a year ago, has proved capable of staying in the ring with him long or actively enough to answer it. Louis' bout...
...individual batting, with the exception of Dick Fletcher, who connected safely his only time up, Johnny Adzigian leads the Harvard stickmen with a cool .500 average. The team falls off badly after this, and the next hitter is Frankie Owen, hitting...
Best authorities agree that Max Baer or any other hard-hitter might knock out a cow or bull by punching it between the eyes, but it would certainly not kill the beast, certainly would break the puncher's hand. There is no record of a prizefighter's trying it. However Max Baer, while helping his father in the butchering business in California, sometimes slugged cattle unconscious by punching them in the short ribs. Jack Dempsey, the late James J. Corbett and other pugilists have tried their hand at steer-knocking in the Chicago stockyards. The knocker wields...
...698th homerun of his career (excluding World Series and exhibition games), with three men on base, in a game against the White Sox, bringing his total to 12 for this year, 14 behind his record year (1927). Lou Gehrig of the Yankees, who was expected to be leading homerun hitter as Ruth declined, was four behind Johnson. Last week in an exhibition game at Norfolk, Va. a pitched ball hit Gehrig on the head, knocked him unconscious. Anxious to maintain his record of playing in more consecutive games than any other player in major-league baseball history, Gehrig next...