Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stolen 26 bases this season, more than any other National Leaguer. He dances and prances off base, keeping the enemy's infield upset and off balance, and worrying the pitcher. The boys call it "showboat baseball." He is not, in his first year, the greatest baserunner since Ty Cobb, but he is mighty good. Cobb made a practice of coming in with spikes aimed at anyone brave enough to get in his way. It wouldn't have been politic for Jackie to do it that way very often. Robinson's base running, which resembles more the trickiness...
Brooklyn's Jackie Robinson had done his part in the club's pennant drive, hitting .300 or a few points over or under and leading the league in stolen bases (25). Of the other four Negroes in the majors, the St. Louis Browns' Henry Thompson and Willard Brown had been released after a month's trial; Cleveland's Larry Doby was still hanging on, as a pretty impotent pinch hitter...
...Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). A Stolen Life with Bette Davis and Glenn Ford...
...caretaker, John J. Hickey, told police yesterday morning that the house had been entered through a rear first floor window the night before. Dunning, who was spending a vacation at Cutout, was summoned back to Boston to determine if anything was stolen...
...Stolen Spurs. Reviewing Dr. Hawley's account, Psychiatrist Karl Menninger diagnoses Custer as a psychopath marked by extreme vanity, inhumanity, ruthlessness and a complete lack of loyalty to any friend or cause. Dr. Menninger notes some glaring symptoms of severe neurosis: Custer was noted for gaudy uniforms and bad manners; during the Civil War he stole a pair of spurs given by General Santa Ana to the father of one of his friends who was a Confederate officer; he often exposed his troops to unnecessary danger and slighted their medical care; in his attacks on Indian camps he habitually...