Word: sluggers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Network picked up its only two runs in the ninth, when two CRIMSON players who had been loaned out to give WHRB a full team homered with the bases empty. Bob "Slugger" Sand and Joe "Long-Ball" Shepard did the power work for WHRB...
...Sprinting back as though possessed, the outfielder grabbed the fly ball on the dead run-and disappeared into the nearby woods. While the robbed slugger whooped with delight and the stands cheered, bewildered prison guards tardily set out in chase. But fleet-footed Centerfielder Ronald Mules (larceny, breaking and entering), had broken up the ball game and broken clean away from the Concord, Mass, prison farm...
...really felt left out was the Dodgers' top slugger, Duke Snider. A fine lefthanded hitter, he slashes fat pitches to right field. And there the Coliseum outfield seems to stretch away forever like a vast green cow pasture. In his frustration, Duke undertook to prove to Infielder Don Zimmer that at least he could heave a ball out of the park. In a pregame contest, he threw a ball up to the 76th row of the 79-row stands before something snapped in his elbow. The team doctor prescribed rest and heat; Manager Walter Alston angrily ordered another kind...
...Altar Boy. McNulty had an ear like a hard neighborhood cop for the giveaway phrase. Describing one of his sad quirky little pub characters, a man called The Slugger, he wrote: "He looked like a guy that was maybe a small altar boy and fell into bad company for thirty-four years...
...Hollywood and Vine remarked: "Nobody's them Angels." The Angels are the displaced persons in the westward movement. Last year's Pacific Coast League champs, they had a couple of crowd-drawers--a line-up averaging .304, a pitching staff with four 15-game winners, and a roly-poly slugger named Bilko who swatted 56 homeruns...