Word: sluggers
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...Slugger TIME really timed the story perfectly, and belted it out of the park into Bedford...
Died. John A. Hillerich, 80, who in 1884 made the first "Louisville Slugger" baseball bat, later founded the famed Hillerich & Bradsby Co. which manufactures nearly all bats for the major and minor leagues (over 2,000,000 a year), for half a century has supplied baseball's great with tailor-made weapons; in Chicago...
...usual fire-the-manager cries were being heard and doing team morale no good. Carpenter suddenly announced that he was not only keeping Ben Chapman but had signed him for 1947 too. From then on, Chapman was able to get what he needed from his boys. Ex-Cincinnati slugger Frank McCormick (who cost $40,000) began knocking down the fences. So did Rightfielder Ron Northey and Catcher Andy Seminick. The club swept through the West for the most successful Philly trip in 30 years...
...despite all these classic methods of pulling into a batting slump, the Outing Club still managed to outscore its Radcliffe counterpart last Saturday in the annual baseball fest. "We just couldn't seem to make an out; everything we touched got us to first base," said one sad O.C. slugger...
...Boston, eternally hopeful Red Sox fans pinned large hopes on a pair of reclaimed pets-slim-jim Slugger Ted Williams and chunky Bobby Doerr-and didn't see that their Sox were down at third base and right field, and only at half-mast in pitching...