Word: sluggers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very perfection long kept him from popularity. Not until he was close to the end of his career did he fire the imagination of the fans, who always like a slugger better than a boxing perfectionist. Beaten once on points by Jake La-Motta (in the second of their six matches), Robinson lost his second bout and his middleweight championship to Britain's Randy Turpin in 1951. Some 60,000 turned up at the Polo Grounds for the rematch, the first really big gate Robinson ever attracted. Battered and bleeding, his timing way off, Robinson made a dramatic tenth...
Welterweight Billy Graham had fought Champion Kid Gavilan three times before. Irish Billy took a split decision in one of two nontitle bouts. Cuba's "Kid Hawk" won the other, plus a title defense against Billy-also on split decisions. But the last time Slugger Graham tangled with Boxer Gavilan, Billy's admirers were bitter as they left Madison Square Garden. They muttered darkly that Billy had been robbed; they began calling him "the champ without the crown...
...bassoon case was Wonderboy, a bat he had whittled for himself from the center of a tree struck by lightning. And when Pop finally gave him his chance, he made beautiful music with it. He belted homers almost without trying, but he was more than just a slugger. It developed that he could throw like DiMaggio and field like Tris Speaker. In short, he was a natural. The whole team caught fire from him; within a few weeks, the Knights were back in the pennant fight...
...Cherry Point, N.C., photographers caught the former Boston Red Sox outfield Slugger Ted Williams warming up in another league. Recalled to active duty in the Marine Corps last May, Captain Williams, who served three years with the Marines in World War II, one of them as aviation instructor at Pensacola, is getting a refresher course in the finer points of fighter planes...
...religious leaders either, because once the students have fulfilled their legal attendance requirement for a particular day, they are free to do whatever they wish--and religious learning is usually low on their list of preferred after-noon activities. Even if parents order their children to forsake the Louisville slugger or the pool cue, there is no defense against the time-honored tradition of hooky...