Word: infielding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monotony of a beautifully driven race on a course too difficult for real speed was punctuated only by the iron voice of the world's most powerful address system, telling the crowd, picnicking on the roof of the bright blue club house or milling around the huge infield, how far Nuvolari was ahead, and how this or that individual or firm was offering a premium on the next lap, which Nuvolari invariably won. William B. Leeds offered $500 to any U. S. driver who won a lap, did not have...
...taken and some 30,000 other citizens were jammed on the field, in the aisles, outside the gates. Not since he appeared at Philadelphia last June to accept his nomination had newshawks heard anything like the roar which went up as the Nominee was driven slowly around the infield behind an Uncle Sam leading a donkey. Over the grandstands gleamed his floodlighted portrait, 40 ft. high, captioned HE SAVED AMERICA. Exhilarated by this hero's welcome, Franklin Roosevelt mounted a platform over second base to tell Pittsburgh and the nation how he had done it, justify the money...
...home run. In a cold rain that started in the second inning, kept up throughout the game, Giant batters slowly ground out runs against Yankee Pitcher Ruffing-one in the fifth on Bartell's homer, another in the sixth, four more in the eighth when the Yankee infield blundered. Giants 6, Yankees...
...within clear view of the grandstand crowd. Most elaborate plant of its kind in the world, the Raceway cost $1,000,000, which its first race may pay back. An enormous public address system will inform the crowd what is happening as cars roll around the rolls. Stands and infield will hold 160,000 spectators, which Roosevelt Raceway hopes to draw twice a year hereafter, on Independence and Columbus Days...
...Realmleader Hitler by placing their straw hats over their hearts. The crowd shouted, whistled, clapped in unison. The noise was soon drowned by the ovation for the German team which, as host, entered the arena last of all. When all the athletes had lined up neatly on the green infield, Dr. Theodor Lewald, head of the German Organizing Committee, made a 20-minute speech to introduce Herr Hitler, who, dressed in a brown uniform, had arrived an hour before...