Word: strikeouts
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...thrill of the game between the fourth and sixth platoon last week came when Scotty Hodges stretched a three-bagger into a home run to aid "Strikeout" Hillger pitch the fourth to a nine to six victory...
...have reported, the remainder of the team to come out March 1. Of the moundsmen, Warren Berg has had the most experience, but Jack Farley, Joe Phelan, Irving Rudman, and Dick Harding, who is still banging in goals for the hockey team, have seen some service. Last year's strikeout artist, Mort Waldstein, has received his degree and will not play this year. Jim Mains and Brendon Riley are also likely prospects for the hurling corps...
...second time in a row Mort Waldstein, Crimson strikeout specialist, had a shutout practically cinched going into the last inning and then blew all chances for a clean slate with a sloppily-played ninth...
Last week as Moscow nights lasted from three in the afternoon until nine the next morning, Russia's capital decided to stage a blackout. It was a strikeout. Because of a textile shortage, nine out of ten Moscow families were without curtains heavy enough to muffle light. Because of a paper shortage, they could not paper their windows. Because of a shortage of blue light bulbs, the officially urged alternative of carrying on life under half light was also impracticable. Only thoroughgoing defense, if Moscow should suddenly be subjected to an air raid: the first move of revolution-shut...
...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...