Word: kneeings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schoendienst's TB spells doom for Milwaukee. Manager Fred Haney has no one to fill his place, especially now that Mel Roach has reinjured his knee. The middle of the infield now consists of rookie Chuck Cottier and either John Logan or Felix Mantilla (the only player in the majors to bat lower than Willy Miranda...
...Minnesota's Duluth division, Gene practices two nights a week and on weekends with his father, still jumping at 46, and younger brothers Glenn, 17, and Wayne, 10, who compete in age-group meets. To develop strong leg and stomach muscles required for jumping, he does deep knee bends in his basement for an hour at a time with 35-lb. bags of sand on each shoulder...
...varsity actually won 50 individual matches to its opponents' 35 during the campaign. The team, a much better one than its record would indicate, had every conceivable "break" go the wrong way--from mid-season withdrawals to questionable calls to Bob Foster's absence (due to a knee injury) from a match in which his victory would have been the deciding factor...
Rest on a friendly knee, intent...
...Alice in Wonderland) Carroll evoked a little girl's seaside idyl. The lines might well apply to nine-year-old Hilary Bray and her discovery, in Devil by the Sea, that little girls who walk along the shore can expect to find more than sand castles. The friendly knee that innocent Hilary encounters is the shank of an old derelict whom she meets at the amusement park in her seaside home town of Henstable. Later that afternoon Hilary sees the old man lead another little girl across the marshes. Watching his "clumsy horror, the surgical boot, the clubfoot...