Word: whacker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Armed Whacker. Pete Gray of Nanticoke, Pa., a regular outfielder for the Memphis Chicks, knocked a homer over a 20-ft. fence 330 ft. from home plate in a Southern Association game at Chattanooga's Engel Stadium. He has no right arm. Batting against Pitcher Bob Albertson of the Chattanooga Lookouts, the cocky, 28-year-old slugger let two wild ones go by, then clouted his way around on the kind of pitch he dreams about-waist-high and a little inside. Said Gray: "It sure felt good...
Sometimes a wheedle whacker telephones the wrong mooch. One dynamiter recently tried to give the Russian Injection to the head of the Crime Section, U.S. Department of Justice...