Word: sluggers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dudley '31 will again do the backstop work, while B. H. Ticknor '31, most consistent extra-base slugger on the team, will be in the cleanup position. B. H. Bassett '31, diminutive outergardener, will be the sixth sophomore in today's starting lineup...
...team batted for the high early-season average of 253, with Prior who garnered a 444 average, the leading individual slugger...
...absurd it is to think that James E. Watson of Indiana could ever become President of the U. S. But politics is like baseball. Getting men on bases is what counts. A base on balls is as good as a clean single if there is a home-run slugger in the lineup. The total runs, not the hits, win the game. In the Republican league, James E. Watson plays on the anti-Hoover team, whose hardest hitter in June may well be James E. Watson's good friend, Charles Gates Dawes. Therefore, James E. Watson, small of eye, large...
...Said Manager McGraw: "You can't bring the money into the box office without spending some of it first." Last week, approaching the celebration of his Silver Anniversary as Manager of the Giants, Mr. McGraw was having troubles. His team, even though it is captained by that mighty slugger, Rogers Hornsby, was in fourth place, losing games with exasperating regularity. After suffering four straight defeats at the hands of the Chicago Cubs, the Giants lost two out of four games to the St. Louis Cardinals. Meanwhile, a newspaper despatch quoted Mr. McGraw as saying: "I am getting tired...
...Lord, shifted to the infield, batted and fielded in stellar style, and having face the pitcher only 20 times, is the possessor of a .350 average, while he has yet to be guilty of his initial bobble in the field, after accepting 18 chances. He has proved himself a slugger of parts, having included a double and a triple in the seven hits he has landed off hostile deliveries...