Word: plate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshall, Ed Smith, and Kevin Reilly led the Crimson at the plate, rapping out two hits apiece...
Captain John Coppinger, never before noted for his prowess at the plate, hammered out five straight hits; shortstop Ernic Mannino collected three, Lennie Lunder three, and various other hardworking batters two hits apiece...
When the current Harvard Varsity baseball team gets twenty (20) bits in an afternoon of competition, there must be something odd some-where Yesterday the strange element was the pitching of the University of Massachusetts at Fort Devens, which was just about sufficient to get the ball over the plate where it was clouted by alert home players...
...seventh, 13 men came to the plate for the Eagles, six drawing bases on balls and four banging out singles off Godin and Herb Merser. Before Barry Turner arrived to quell the uprising, a succession of nine big B.C. runs had trooped across the plate. That made the score 11 to 0, and that's the way it remained when darkness brought a merciful end to the proceedings an inning later...
Berg will start Pete Webber on the mound, although Webber will probably split the pitching chores with Jim Gabler. "I'd rather use George Emmons and have Bill Rosenaur behind the plate," Berg declared, "but both are out for football and are available only on weekends...