Word: hitters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manage its team, Philadelphia dug up Harry Davis, onetime captain of the Philadelphia Athletics. Cincinnati got Bubbles Hargrave, National League batting champion in 1926. New York has Moose McCormick, old Giant pinch hitter, and Chicago has Brick Owens, longtime American League umpire. Most famed of the circuit's managers is St. Louis' peppery Gabby Street, the Old Sarge who won two pennants and a World Series for the St. Louis Cardinals...
...Crimson runs came in the eighth when, after pinch hitter Burges Ayres rapped out a clean single, Rice came through with his four bagger...
...teams tied for first place, Lowell and Adams, meet in a post-season game. Charley Lutz will take the mound for the Gold Cosstoers while Dick Story will hurl for the Lowell team. The Bell boys are pinning their offensive hopes on slugging Joepy Lyford, the League's outstanding hitter...
...Lowell nine trounced Leverett 7-4, in a game which was featured by loose fielding and frequent base stealing. Lowell's four runs in the first of the third, with two out won the ball game. Leading hitter was Joe Lyford of Lowell...
...know an easy fly as "a can of corn," an easy, high-hopping grounder as "Big Bill," a curve ball as "No. 2," and a slow ball as "the set of dishes." A pitcher easy for a particular batter to hit is that batter's "cousin." A hard hitter "lays the wood to it." Base runners are "ducks on the pond...