Word: sluggers
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...appearances Saturday, the lefty was brought into the first game for the sole purpose of facing Brown’s top slugger, sophomore Matt Kutler. Both times he did the job, striking Kutler out in the first game and getting a ground out in the second...
Against the IOP on Saturday, the Crimson was led at the plate by freshman slugger Nick Josefowitz, who belted a three-run home run, and junior Nicole Meunier, whose 3-for-4, 5 RBI outing left her a dinger short of the cycle...
Finally, she tossed a pitch Whitton could handle and sure enough, the Crimson slugger smacked a home run to deep center, giving the Crimson an eight-run lead and invoking the mercy rule to end the game...
During World War II, many of baseball’s greatest hitters and pitchers were absent from the diamond. According to The New York Times, 5,400 of the 5,800 ballplayers at the end of 1941 were in the military by January of 1945. Detroit Tigers slugger and American League Most Valuable Player Hank Greenberg entered the army on May 7, 1941, the day after he hit two home runs against the Yankees and seven months before Pearl Harbor. The season of 1941 was a magical one; Ted Williams hit .406 and Joe DiMaggio hit safely in 56 straight...
...competition--"invented by a drunken German gynecologist; you steer with Kegels"--and then it is on to anthrax and botox, and then he jumps straight into Sept. 11. He gets cheers for a bit on a flight attendant telling passengers that in the event of a hijacking, a Louisville Slugger will fall from the compartment above--"Apply to the head, groin and knees...