Word: urbanus
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...long after Johannes Hendrikus Urbanus got back to The Netherlands last spring, a Dutch baseball official said sadly: "I wish Hannie had stayed home." The star pitcher of the Dutch Honkbal champions, Amsterdam's Op Volharding Volgt Overwinning (perseverance leads to victory) team, Hannie, 25, had just spent a month in the U.S. at the New York Giants' training camp (TIME, Feb. 25). He learned some tricky pitches, but Hannie and the things he had learned in America played hob with Honkbal...
...pitchers kept trying to toss American style, and some improved. But last week, at season's end, none was even close to Hannie's new-found effectiveness. With an average of twelve strikeouts a game, and two international victories (over England and Belgium) to his credit. Pitcher Urbanus hurled his undefeated O.V.V.O. team to its fourth straight Dutch championship, 5 to 2, over a strong Haarlem nine...
...article appeared in the Feb. 25 Sport section about the arrival in this country of Hannie Urbanus, the first European baseball player ever to come to this country to be trained here . . . We, who have organized this idea [inviting Hannie to the U.S. for a month's training with the New York Giants], which we know will snowball as time goes on, are particularly impressed with the right tone of the article. In my 20 years' career as a newspaperman I have seldom seen a better job of telling an interesting sports story...
...Netherlands, sport fans know Johannes Hendrikus Urbanus as well as Americans know Urbanus' hero, Bob Feller. Like Feller, 24-year-old Urbanus is a pitcher. He plays on Amsterdam's Op Volharding Volgt Overwinning (Perseverance Leads to Victory) team. The O.V.V.O. nine, behind Urbanus' consistent pitching, has won three straight Dutch championships. Last week "Hannie" was the envy of some 5,000 Dutch Honkbal players. At the invitation of the Knickerbocker, a Dutch-American magazine, Hannie flew to the U.S. to spend a month of spring training with the New York Giants, National League champions...