Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pierce, Early Wynn and Dick Donovan, the Chisox have a strong big three, but their only real batting strength comes from catcher Sherm Lollar and Jim Landis. Nellie Fox is always a dependable singles hitter, and Luis Aparicio is one of the classic players in the good-field no-hit school, combining with Fox for an excellent double-play pair...
...last Saturday--was influenced to some degree by special circumstances. The Varsity had whipped its Clinton, S.C., hosts by 6-3 the day before and was scheduled to leave for home immediately after the second match Saturday morning. Therefore, coach Jack Barnaby said, "the boys were more anxious to hit the road than to hit the tennis ball...
...there is little doubt that the big car's medium-priced lines will be hard hit by the approaching battle of the compact cars. Their sales, which were 37% of all sales only four years ago, last week were down to 25%-and still slipping. Most experts expect the new compact cars to occupy the spot once held by the Ford, Chevy and Plymouth before they got big enough to push out the medium-priced cars...
Died. Grant Withers, 55, once popular cinemactor who in 1930 eloped with 17-year-old Loretta Young, eventually chalked up five wrecked marriages, hit the bottle ("They threw a net over me and hauled me to a sanitarium"), was reclaimed by his friend John Wayne, who got him parts in Wayne pictures (Wake of the Red Witch, Fort Apache); by his own hand (an overdose of barbiturates); in North Hollywood...
...next day Harvard quickly trimmed the Marines 7-4 for its second victory. Bob Shaunessy pitched the first three innings and gave up four runs, but EdWadsworth, an erratic pitcher last year, entered the game in the fourth and allowed the Marines only one hit for the rest of the contest. The Crimson had the pleasure of knocking Carl Hubbell, Jr., out of the box with three runs in the second frame and went on from there to pick up four more runs on four hits and eight Quantico errors. In these games the hits were well distributed among...