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Every baseball fan has suffered at this spectacle: His team is one run behind, has two men on bases with two out, and its heaviest slugger at bat. A clean hit may win the game, which the opposing pitcher well knows. Hence, instead of serving a ball that the batter can hit, the pitcher throws four wild ones in succession, passing the batter to first base...
...McCRAY Cleveland, Ohio The banker is Henry B. Peters. His bank: Fairfield National of Lancaster, Ohio. The slugger whom Banker Peters recognized in TIME (April 6, 1931) was tough Fred Burke, now imprisoned for life in Michigan...
With the baseball season more than a third over, the University nine is batting .264 and fielding .933. In the ten games already played the Crimson has knocked out a total of 92 hits, 24 of them for extra bases. Ticknor is the leading slugger to date with an average of .359 while Bassett and McGrath have both maintained a 1,000 average in fielding...
...Jacob Ruppert, owner of the New York Yankees, offered moonfaced, ball-slugging outfielder George Herman ("Babe") Ruth $160,000 for two years' work?his last word. Ruth's "last" word: He would not work two years for less than $170,000?he would rather retire. Next day, Colonel and slugger met in the Princess Martha Hotel in St. Petersburg, went into the Colonel's room. Ten minutes later the Colonel opened the door. "It's all settled?Ruth accepts...
...Dudley '31 will again do the backstop work, while B. H. Ticknor '31, most consistent extra-base slugger on the team, will be in the cleanup position. B. H. Bassett '31, diminutive outergardener, will be the sixth sophomore in today's starting lineup...