Word: hops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Murderous Pace. Last week. Spain's Careaga and his team worked hard. Their shirts turned purple with sweat and they kept the Frenchmen on the hop. Urruty, however, was too good. "Yo!" he would yell to warn a teammate that the ball was coming his way: "Arriba!" Careaga would counter...
...traveling circus are crammed with theologasters, dawpluckers, makebates, hoodledashers and such archaic huncamunca. His grandson's version of baseball in the Abner Doubleday country may not be so uproarious as James Thurber's rowdy recollections of the game in Columbus, Ohio. But his saga of Hop Bitters ("The Invalid's Friend& Hope"-alcoholic content: 40%), which Patent Medicine Man Asa T. Soule of Rochester put over by promoting a baseball team and a hilariously crooked sculling championship, invites comparison with Thurber's immortal tribute to the life-preserving elixirs concocted by Aunt Margery Albright. This book...
...varsity's one run came in the ninth inning. Left fielder Dick Hofman lod of with a long single to center and continued on to second when the ball took a bad hop by the center fielder. First baseman John Simourian then drove a ground ball through the second baseman's legs, scorin Hoffman...
...varsity's one run came in the ninth inning. Left fielder Dick Hoffman led off with a long single to center and continued on to second when the ball took a bad hop by the center fielder. First baseman John Simourian then drove a ground ball through the second baseman's legs, scoring Hoffman...
...reports: "The Planet Itself and Everything on It Inspired NBC President Weaver to Conceive Show Which No Person Young at Heart Can Ever Forget." Showing the wide, wide world will require twelve mobile units, 40 cameras, 1,000 performers and technicians, 10,000 miles of telephone line. It will hop cross-country from Broadway to the shores of San Diego and the ski slopes of Mount Hood, zoom east for a water spectacle at Jones Beach, take in a couple of scenes from Julius Caesar at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ont., listen to a jam session on New Orleans...