Word: ball
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...favorite pastime is fishing in Ozark streams. A Methodist, he used to teach Sunday School so ardently that his enemies charged that he used this means of fostering his political career. He smokes cigars, likes chess, pie, plays pitch. He is a perspiring mem- ber of the Hoover Medicine Ball Cabinet...
...free shot just before the final gong. In the extra period he smacked another one through. The Midwests, able individualists though they were, could make no headway at all against the Old Aiken system of feeding, riding off, keeping in position. While the Midwests bunched on the ball, Old Aiken deployed and rode around them until the score...
...Rare though .400 is even in "lively" ball days, the highest season's average was made years before even the introduction of the cork centres-.438 by Batsman Duffey of the Boston Nationals in 1894. Other high season averages...
...Player Hornsby, an extraordinary hitter, is well aware of his excellence. The story is told that once, at a practice game in spring training, a young catcher asked each batter what kind of ball he was weak on, so that the pitcher could throw such a ball and give the batter needed practice. When Player Hornsby was asked this question, he gave the young catcher an offended look, haughtily replied, "This is Rogers Hornsby batting...
...Literally named, the spitball has saliva applied on one side. The difference in atmospheric friction on the wet and dry sides gives the ball a queer twist or "break...