Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National League-and especially devastating in Brooklyn, where he has batted well over .500 this season. When Musial grounded out that first time UD, Ebbets Field breathed more easily. But on his next trip to the plate, Brooklyn groaned. "The Man" had lined up on an inside pitch and hit it squarely...
...next two seasons, he pitched for the Cardinal farm team at Williamson, W.Va., winning 15 games and losing 8. At Daytona Beach, Fla. the following year, he won 18 games and hit so well (.352) that he was used as an outfielder when he wasn't pitching. In a chase after a fly ball at Daytona, his career was set for him: he took a header and landed on his left shoulder. His throwing arm never felt the same after that. So Pitcher Musial, as Pitcher Babe Ruth did 22 years before him, became a full-time slugging outfielder...
...that time, there was no hint of the famed Musial batting crouch. He began leaning forward a trifle in 1942, his first full season in St. Louis, and hit a respectable .315. His salary did not figure to make him rich, but he remembered one of the reasons why Eddie Dyer advised him to become a Cardinal-the possibility of a share of World Series money. His first two years in big-league baseball, thanks partly to Musial, the Cardinals won the pennant. His shares amounted...
...strolls among the restaurant's potted palms every evening that he is free, smiling shyly at his guests. Even if the restaurant business should fail, he could always go back and become lord mayor of Donora, where special scoreboards keep the home-town faithful posted on every hit Stan Musial makes every...
With "Norzon," an artificial suede fabric, the Behr-Manning Co. of Troy, N.Y. hit the jackpot. Because Norzon wears as well as real suede and can be washed with soap & water, shoemakers were quick to use it. In 2^ years they have put Norzon into an estimated 35 million pairs of shoes. But like many another company with something good to sell, Behr-Manning has been plagued by cheap imitations and complaints when the imitations did not hold...