Word: hitter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fourth game came the big moment. There were two men out, and two men on. The Dodgers were trailing 2-1. On the mound was the Yankees' big Bill Bevens, who was just a pitch or so from baseball immortality: in sight of the first no-hitter in World Series history...
Staggered by the Artists League of America: Yankee Hitter Joe DiMaggio, who found himself on the league's list of "the ten most interesting faces in America." Long-jawed Joe's face, bubbled the artists, was "reminiscent of Modigliani's paintings." Among the other most interesting: Eleanor Roosevelt, Danny Kaye, Sinclair Lewis and Kate Smith. What made Singer Smith's face so interesting: its "simplicity, understanding and kindness...
...little more, learned to relax instead of freezing when the count got to two strikes against him. By August, Ralph Kiner had almost doubled his 1946 homer production (as a rookie last year he led the National League with 23). Says Greenberg: "He's a much better hitter than I ever...
...right-handed hitter, Jackie has a habit of swinging too soon and his motion is half chop, 'half lunge. As a result, he fouls off a lot of balls to the left. But his batting average at week's end was a solid .301. The wise boys who judge a hitter by his Runs Batted In totals are apt to take too fast a look at Jackie's R.B.I, and grumble that Jackie can't hit in a tight spot. But as the club's No. 2 hitter in the lineup, Jackie...
...leading the league in stolen bases (25). Of the other four Negroes in the majors, the St. Louis Browns' Henry Thompson and Willard Brown had been released after a month's trial; Cleveland's Larry Doby was still hanging on, as a pretty impotent pinch hitter...