Word: wee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...During his streak, Di Maggio used three bats. The first was stolen after he broke George Sisler's modern record of hitting safely in 41 games. The second, with which he cracked Wee Willie Keeler's alltime record of 44, was raffled off in Di Mag's native San Francisco for the benefit of U.S.O. It brought...
...lead their own. Still another was husky, florid Trumpeter Jimmy MacPartland, who assembled the small band at the Brass Rail this week. Three of that group are men who began in the Austin High period: bespectacled Joe Sullivan, who learned his piano at the Chicago Conservatory; gaunt, elfin "Pee Wee" Russell, famed for his thin, jetting runs and husky growls on the clarinet; boyish-looking, elliptical-screwball-talking Eddie Condon, who can make his guitar a whole rhythm section...
...loped around the bases amid a deafening roar, the 26-year-old Yankee Clipper left in his wake the broken fragments of one of baseball's immortal records. Di Maggio had just hit safely in his 45th successive game, bettering the fabulous string of 44 spun by wondrous Wee Willie Keeler (who "hit 'em where they ain't") 44 years...
...records of Big Joe and Wee Willie were not really comparable (in Wee Willie's day, the rules were different-for instance, fouls did not count as strikes). Nevertheless, baseball fans insisted on comparisons. In 179 times at bat, Di Maggio got 67 hits (including twelve doubles, three triples, 13 home runs) for a total of 124 bases. In 201 times at bat, Keeler got 82 hits (including eleven doubles, ten triples, no homers) for a total of 113 bases. Di Maggio's batting average was .374, Keeler...
...Paul Reverings apparently recorded on wax (safest way for Nazis to know exactly what a commentator will say), Chandler has sneered at ''Wee Willie Willkie," awarded to the British Empire the "Muddle Medal." to F.D.R. the "Meddle Medal," referred to the U.S. as "Uncle Sam's flophouse for European down-and-outers...