Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also toyed with a new pursuit. It was too early yet to guess at his future. He pitched the first ball in the annual Society Softball Game-and it turned out he had never thrown one before. After a little instruction he managed to get it clear to the plate...
Outside of the man behind the plate, the other starting positions seem pretty nearly decided upon. Big Walt Coulson will start at first base, "Sully" Sullivan will take the keystone sack, Ernie Maninno will handle shortstop, and Captain John Coppinger will take his old position at third...
...days of practice out on Soldiers Field have proved anything, it is that the squad will have to show a lot more power with a bat than it has so far if it wants to win games. Hitting has been weak, and intensive practice at the plate will be the order of the day from now until the Sunday embarkation...
...Manhattan, the National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church announced that dollars were piling high in the collection plate in response to Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill's radio appeal for contributions to a special world relief fund. Indications were that the $1,000,000 Episcopal goal would be comfortably exceeded...
...When I go into office," Earl promised, "I'm going to have an inaugural party for anybody who wants to come. When they arrive we'll just add another plate to the table, and tell them to come on in-we'll give them all the soda pop and hot dogs and buttermilk they want ... if I have to kill every hawg I can raise...