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"ref": "1875 June, University of Michigan, “Various Topics”, in The Chronicle, page 201",
"text": "Turner hit to short right and took his first, and then his second by a wild throw of Winslow, but was trapped between second and third and put out by Stearns. Detroit thus retired without recording a tally, and the University again went to bat.",
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"ref": "1968 December, A.S. Young, “Jackie Opens the Door — Wide!”, in Ebony, page 136",
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"ref": "1980, Jack Horner, My Own Brand, page 96",
"text": "The fastest way to destroy one's credibility in Ottawa or anywhere else is to go to bat over something frivolous. I recall Dan McKenzie (Winnipeg South Centre) coming to see me with an article he'd picked up that said metrification would result in a ten-hour day. He even had a picture of the new clock.",
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"ref": "1995, Tom Clancy, Debt of Honor, page 249",
"text": "Barb, you have to hang in there kid. […] Two more weeks, maybe three, and we go to bat, Barb.",
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"ref": "1955, Edwin Strickland, Gene Wortsman, Phenix City, page 172",
"text": "If he had been guided along the path of righteousness and worked hard for honest people, “Ashie” would have been a good man. But he was, indeed, a victim of circumstances in that he went to bat for the wrong side.",
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"ref": "1968, Maneck Wadia, Management and the Behavioral Sciences, page 187",
"text": "Among foremen who often “go to bat” for their men, encouraging efficiency brings an improvement in group production norms",
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},
{
"ref": "1995, Tom Clancy, Debt of Honor, page 249",
"text": "Barb, you have to hang in there kid. […] Two more weeks, maybe three, and we go to bat, Barb.",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1968, Maneck Wadia, Management and the Behavioral Sciences, page 187",
"text": "Among foremen who often “go to bat” for their men, encouraging efficiency brings an improvement in group production norms",
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