Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Page, southpaw pitcher, leads the batting with an average of .600 but as he has only taken five trips to the plate this season, it seems safe to call Captain McGrath and Ticknor, both compiling .394, the leading swatsmiths. Five of the team's regulars are hitting above .300 while McCaffrey, lead-off man with .297 and Mays with .288 are not far behind. DesRoches Batting...
Ticknor qualifies as the leading scorer having crossed home plate successful a score of times. McGrath and Wood take second honors with totals of 16 tallies apiece. Following are DesRoches 10, McCaffrey 9, Mays 8, Rex 7, and Sheldon...
...peppermint candy. . . . What if a small girl and her younger brother swarm onto their grandfather's lap and after them and onto the same lap leaps a flop-eared and gangly puppy dog while the grandfather is at breakfast? . . . The puppy dog can see and reach the presidential plate. . . . A lightning-like snip is made and a carefully fried egg, prepared for President Hoover himself, disappears into that bottomless pit that is every puppy dog's stomach...
...first man at bat, was passed by White. McGrath followed with a single and went to second on Maxey's error as McCaffrey scored. After Ticknor struck out, Des Roches was walked and, when Ferrill muffed one of White's pitches, he advanced to third while McGrath crossed the plate. Demarest threw wild and Des Roches also came home, ending the scoring for the first inning...
...London General Pershing met George V,? was ceremoniously received by high officials. Moving on to Paris (June 13), he began a round of official receptions, dinners, calls, parties and conferences that seriously distracted him from his job. The plate, the linen, the menu and the service at the £lysee Palace moved him to exclaim: "Nowhere are such things done so well as at the palace of the President...