Word: ud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest players in the game. Stan Musial is the highest salaried (at $50,000 a year) and most feared batter in the National League-and especially devastating in Brooklyn, where he has batted well over .500 this season. When Musial grounded out that first time UD, Ebbets Field breathed more easily. But on his next trip to the plate, Brooklyn groaned. "The Man" had lined up on an inside pitch and hit it squarely...
...Wanna make a few hundred over the weekend, B,ud, driving a new Buick across the border?" If Bud did, and didn't mind smuggling, he got behind the wheel and purred south. At the border town of Laredo, a tourist card could be bought for $2.10. From Laredo south to Monterrey is only 146 miles over good roads, and at Monterrey a pickup would take the Buick, and sell...
...Slug, Please. Sometimes one batsman, alternating with a teammate, stays UD all afternoon. A 'half-century (50 runs) causes decorous applause; a century a little more. Australia's Bradman, the greatest player of the game today, now making a comeback after getting fibrositis while in the Army, once made 334 runs in an innings. Slugging for the fences, a la baseball, is considered unrefined...
...methods of assessment. One wing rather casually sometimes speaks of him 'trippingly on the tongue' as 'that God damn Roosevelt,' short, snappy and staccato-but without grinding the vocal gears. The other crowd snarls it savagely, adagio, making two words out of God-like Gaw-ud-and two out of damn-like da-yam-growled with heart-pumping scorn and generally with a table-pounding drum beat. I belong to the lighter, staccato left wing...
...ud be the good of that?" said...