Word: batsman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...came in without turning-Batsman Bert Haas could almost count the stitches -but took a wicked dip just before he swung. Haas barely ticked the ball, which dribbled a few feet. It was an easy put-out at first. Roared Haas: "That was that sweat ball!" The sweat ball (which is a spit ball parading as an accident of nature) is illegal. But the umpire shook his head and the game went on. Schoolboy Rowe of the Philadelphia Phillies grinned; whatever it was, that pitch had gotten him out of many a tight spot...
...throwing sweat balls. They can't prove it. Four weeks ago at the Polo Grounds, Schoolboy threw one that did a dipsy-doodle. It veered crazily downward the same way a knuckle ball does-and everybody knew that knucklers are not Schoolboy Rowe's specialty. The Giant batsman struck out by a foot. Manager Mel Ott rushed out of the dugout to protest; he demanded to see the ball...
Five more walks, hits by Myles Huntington and Johnny Goldsmith, and an error by the pitcher brought in seven scores in the second. This ended the scoring only until the third, as the Freshmen combined three walks, an infield error, and a hit batsman with two singles, and a double by Goldsmith to counter five more times...
...Montreal's league-leading Les Canadiens. He has made a runaway of this season's scoring race (with 36 goals, 22 assists), though for a while one rival club assigned two men to guard him - as frank a tribute as baseball's right-side shift against Batsman Ted Williams. They gave up that strategy when Rocket-Richard decoyed his defenders out of the play to give his mates a better shot at the cage...
...Slug, Please. Sometimes one batsman, alternating with a teammate, stays UD all afternoon. A 'half-century (50 runs) causes decorous applause; a century a little more. Australia's Bradman, the greatest player of the game today, now making a comeback after getting fibrositis while in the Army, once made 334 runs in an innings. Slugging for the fences, a la baseball, is considered unrefined...