Word: sluggers
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...Southpaw Slugger Ott says he never stopped to figure out what makes him a great hitter. He thinks maybe it's timing or coordination. There is no mystery about the times when Ott strikes out, pops up or dribbles to an infielder; generally it means that the pitcher has outguessed him, and sneaked in a fast ball when Mel was set for a curve or vice versa...
...first 1945 trip to the plate, Bill Nicholson of the Chicago Cubs planted a fat pitch over the 368-ft. marker in right center field. With 33 home runs and 122 runs-batted-in, he was the game's leading slugger last year, and he had every intention of repeating...
...Detroit's Tigers, still cocky because of their potent pitching pair-Dizzy Trout and Hal Newhouser, who racked up a record of 56 wins last year-still cannot pretend it isn't painful to have lost Slugger Dick Wakefield (.355) and Pink) Higgins...
Bearing the brunt of U.S. antitank defense were two reliables: 1) the M36 (Slugger) with a high-velocity 90-mm. gun; 2) the fast, low-slung M18 (Hellcat) and its 76-mm. pieces. But the best antitank weapon of all is the rocket-firing fighter-bomber-weather permitting...
...chance to demonstrate their prowess on Soldiers Field, and a few have drawn attention to themselves by virtue of their records. Two of these who have written all over them, but who protest strongly to the label, are javelin-throwing Dave Murray of V-12 and Eliot and Freshman slugger Walt Lowell House...