Word: sluggers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chance to demonstrate their prowess on Soldiers Field, and a few have drawn attention to themselves by virtue of their records. Two of these who have written all over them, but who protest strongly to the label, are javelin-throwing Dave Murray of V-12 and Eliot and Freshman slugger Walt Lowell House...
...regular outfielder for the Memphis Chicks, knocked a homer over a 20-ft. fence 330 ft. from home plate in a Southern Association game at Chattanooga's Engel Stadium. He has no right arm. Batting against Pitcher Bob Albertson of the Chattanooga Lookouts, the cocky, 28-year-old slugger let two wild ones go by, then clouted his way around on the kind of pitch he dreams about-waist-high and a little inside. Said Gray: "It sure felt good...
Boxing has suffered from the war: four champions have been killed in battle. But last week crowds packed the Palace of Physical Culture to watch a squat, shave-headed slugger named Nikolai Korolev outpoint the Red Army's Ivan Ganykin in four rounds to become "absolute champion of Moscow." Korolev weighed 198 lb., Ganykin 156. Member of the Order of the Red Banner (for his guerrilla fighting behind Nazi lines), Korolev boasts of his letters from Joe Louis...
...Statistician McNeil especially had the eye of the crowd with his green and white pin striped V-neck sweater; Professor Barloon was his usual sartorial self and played a faultless game at right field in a pair of white shoes and a form fitting light tan gabardine suit, while Slugger McNair cavorted around in a natty white straw...
...Never a slugger, court strategist Dick Sears pit-patted his way to seven U.S. championships (a record since equaled by Larned and Tilden but never broken). He also won the national doubles six times (five of them with James Dwight). At Wimbledon he played only once, was soundly beaten in an early round. Injuries he suffered in a collision with a doubles partner ended Dick Sears's lawn tennis career at his prime (25). Thereupon he took up its less strenuous ancestor, court tennis, and became the first U.S. champion at that. Despite a scarcity of opponents, Dick Sears...