Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early 1900's many a U. S. citizen played baseball on a gymnasium floor during the shut-in winter months. The game they played was like outdoor baseball except that the diamond was smaller, the pitcher pitched underhand, the ball was bigger and softer...
Last week softball (minus its rover) was brought back indoors, stripped of its aliases and launched as a big-time winter sport. Patterned after major-league baseball's setup, the National Professional Indoor Baseball League sold franchises to New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis. Each club, locally financed, is to play a 102-game schedule from mid-November to mid-March, with a World Series at season's end between Eastern and Western champions...
Young Sebastian Bannon, who likes the sea better than Harvard Law School, ships aboard the Gloucester halibut-trawler Susan Dillon for the winter voyage, greenest of a crew of unanimous goldenhearts. Of sailing, the weathers of the winter sea, the fishing itself, physical action and hardship, he gives a rimy, brilliant account. In the best pages of the book Sebastian, lost at sea, rows his dead dory-mate 100 miles to land, his hands frozen to the oars. He and his rescuer, a young woman, are marooned on (and rescued from) a somewhat Melvilleian iceberg which mystically wanders...
...accomplish this he runs three different workouts, one from November to the Christmas holidays, the other two during the winter months. For the first three weeks of the course general trunk strengthening exercises are given to 230-pound mammoths and 105-pound weaklings alike, after which specialized practices are employed to correct individual shortcomings...
David Hyde, instructor in Physical Education, and Lyle Clark; football coach and instructor in Physical Education, are now aiding Fradd by acting as assistants, since classes number only 15 or 20, and from 350 to 300 boys must be instructed each winter...