Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Nichols almost equalled the record held by Sweeney, of last year's St. Louis league team. Sweeney, while pitching for that nine in a game last season, succeeded in striking out 22 of his opponents...
...confidence that has been shown by the nine in the games which they have played this year. They always have played with remarkable steadiness, and have not relaxed even when the game was most certainly in their hands. This accounts for the large scores by which we have beaten almost every nine we have met. But just one word of warning,-look out for coaching and base-running...
...Yale News comes out squarely and acknowledges the probable loss of the championship in base-ball. It is the first time for years that the defeat of our opponents is laid to that hitherto almost unknown quantity, Yale indifference. We quote the editorial in full...
...best played of the class games this spring. A strong west wind blew directly up the field, which accounts for the fact that all the base hits were singles. The fielding on both sides was very sharp, especially that of eighty-six, who, outside of the battery, played an almost perfect game. Palmer and Austin alternated every two innings in pitching for the freshmen, although Austin took Palmer's place in the ninth after five successive hits had been made off the latter. For eighty-six, Gardner, Rankin and Collins did the best work in the fleld, and for eighty...
...hope that our nine will show some improvement in one respect in this game, that is, in base running and coaching. In this respect our nine's play has been wretched in almost every game which it has played this year, and if it had not been for its splendid fielding and heavy batting we should have lost more than one game simply through this fault. There are doubtless, reasons why every man cannot be a good base runner, but there is no excuse for the poor coaching, which has cost us many a run this season. If there...