Word: strikeout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyed son of a San Francisco boiler worker went on to erase the stigma of that strikeout. The craftiest, quickest-thinking ball player in the major leagues, Second Baseman Lazzeri became the mastermind of the Yankee infield, helped them win six pennants and five World Series, became, next to Babe Ruth, the most popular player ever to wear a Yankee uniform. Thousands of New York's Italians, who up to that time had been content with boxing and boccie, began to stream into Yankee Stadium. "Poosh 'em up, Tony!" thereafter was the battle cry of the bleachers...
...last year with four wins and three losses, Farber's southpaw slants may trouble the Crimson more today than they did last Friday when he yielded 13 safeties. With 43 victims to his credit, the Tiger flinger was second only to Yale's Mee Jubitz in the 1938 circuit strikeout rankings...
...Oriole cap, stepped gingerly to the plate, wrapped his gnarled fingers round a bat for the first time in 40 years. From 2,000 throats or more there rose a lusty yell as Oriole Coach Rogers Hornsby, recent manager of the St. Louis Browns, wound up for the special strikeout...
...baseball pitcher strikeouts are what homeruns are to a batter-an indication of letter-perfect efficiency. Last week, when 38-year-old Robert Moses ("Lefty") Grove of the Boston Red Sox struck out six batters in a game with the Detroit Tigers, he: i) won his third consecutive game of the current season and the 260th of his 14-year career in the American League, 2) pitched his team from third to second place in the pennant race, 3) benched himself in the lofty niche reserved for pitchers who have passed the 2,000-strikeout mark...
Although the Crimson Freshmen dropped their last game to B. U. 5-2, when the Terrier twirler set down 20 Yardlings via the strikeout route, the Samborski coached nine will be out today to reverse the count on the Soldiers Field diamond. Jack Schwede for the Crimson will oppose the strike-out arttist Brown on the mound, when the two teams tangle at 4 o'clock...