Word: batterer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Korean crisis, the Secretary of Defense has announced that 230 pints of blood are expected from Massachusetts daily. Most blood will be shipped immediately to the batter front. Home blood will also be needed for use in Massachusetts veteran hompliete...
...typical, of course, that the Dodger run came on a hit which simply refused to bounce off a perfectly good screen. The seasoned fan expected the next batter to hit the sign and win a free suit, or to take three bases on a foul bunt...
Billy always feels at home in the batter's box. He chokes up a bit on his 34-in., 34-oz. Ted Williams model bat, holds his elbows high, and figures confidently that he can hit all pitchers and all pitches equally well. Sometimes, he admits, "a baseball is hard to hit. There's a lot of luck in it." Luck or not, Ted Williams' substitute* seemed likely to be the 1950 batting champ of the American League...
...togged out in pullover, batter's gloves and pads, British Cinemactress Jean ("Ophelia") Simmons struck a pose while waiting her turn at bat in the contest of Pinewood Film Studio v. the Cranleigh School. Cricketer Simmons scored 14 runs, helped Pinewood win by three wickets...
...Jersey Scholarship and recently organized the C. U. Amateur Baseball Club. It is not clear which game the two schools were playing-two stories appearing in Varsity say "baseball," although a letter received from A. C. Barrington Brown, of the Varsity staff mentions "softball." The photograph, which shows batter J. J. Londinsky (Trinity College, Cambridge, and New York), wearing a false moustache, and catcher D. Schwayder (Oxford and Deaver), with a genuine beard, would indicate softball...