Word: sand-lot
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Most kids on the narrow Nicetown streets played a form of stickball; not Roy Campanella. His big hands felt awk ward on a slim broomstick. He played honest sand-lot baseball with the Nicetown Colored Athletic Club or the Nicetown Giants. Soon he was good enough for American Legion ball with Loudenslager Post...
...applied." She soon learned that student extras were in great demand at other studios and particularly for the rash of Mack Sennett and Hal Roach two-reel comedies that were being turned out. Result: Margaret set up her own personnel bureau and began recruiting fellow students for the sand-lot epics and near-epics...
...solemn summary, the American Football Coaches Association counted the year's cost in lives: five in high-school football, two in college football (at Boston U. and Nebraska's Midland College), two in athletic clubs and one in a sand-lot game...
There are brief appearances by Big Leaguers Bob Lemon, Jerry Priddy, Peanuts Lowrey, Hank Sauer, Irv Noren, George Metkovich and Al Zarilla, and a few authentic shots of World Series games. But The Winning Team loses out through sand-lot writing and direction and a rookie performance by Ronald Reagan in the leading role...
Sirs: We whose men are winning this war in the Pacific want none of your suggestion that Eisenhower might be a candidate for supreme command in the Pacific (TIME, Sept. 11). He may be all right for the sand-lot teams in Europe, now that the Russians have taken on and defeated the best of the German Army, but his record shows beyond question that he can't qualify for the big league in the Pacific...