Word: lead-off
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Three cheers for the new department. Personality story on Groucho Marx [Dec. 31] is indeed a nifty job. Lead-off feature is a home run; it helps make a great magazine even greater...
Last week, after missing ten days of spring practice because of flu and a sprained wrist, Pepper Pot Stanky was back in the Giant lineup as lead-off batter. He came to the plate six times. Hunching his stocky (5 ft. 8 in., 165 Ibs.) frame to its shortest possible height, yapping at the pitcher, fidgeting with his cap and uniform, Stanky wriggled his way into four walks ("I don't care how I get on base"), hit a double, stole a base and scored four runs. Not until the ninth inning, after the Giants had salted the game...
...lead-off man Clyde Volimer, replacing injured Dom Dimaggio in center field, faced St. Louis pitchers eight times in as many innings, for a modern mark...
Third-baseman Myles Huntington over threw first for a two-base error on Ceglarski's lead-off grounder in the 10th and a second later threw wide on Eddie Collins' grounder, putting men on first and third with no outs. Harry Hewes then lined a long triple to left which scored the winning two runs. Godin's wild pitch brought in Hewes and gave B.C. an insurance run it never needed...
...Ithacans matched this with their third run, the result of a walk to the lead-off batter, a sacrifice and a single by Hugh McNeil...