Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play of the afternoon was a neatly-executed pitch-out from the Winthrop quarterback to Leverett and Guil Brown, who raced 70 yards for the lone Bunny score. Except for this stunt the Puritans played a steady ball game. Quarterback Dick Couch used straight power plays to take advantage of Leverett's aggressive but out-weighed line...
...knew," said beaming Tommy Henrich, "was I had him in a hole. I was just looking at the ball, and it looked pretty good." Henrich swung and the ball sailed into the Yankee Stadium's right-field stands for a home run. In the last half of the ninth inning, ailing (back injury) First-Baseman Henrich had robbed Don Newcombe, the Dodgers' towering Negro righthander, of a four-hit shutout in his first World Series pitching assignment, and won the Series' opening game for the Yankees...
With Yankee Veteran Allie Reynolds pitching brilliant, two-hit ball, the 66,222 fans had seen some of the tightest precision baseball since the days of Christy Mathewson and Chief Bender. But there was no delirium in the stands; coming as it did after cliff-hanger finales in both pennant races, this hitless brand of play was not the kind to inspire frenzied cheering. In the second game, the story was almost the same, in reverse. Brooklyn's skinny, curve-balling lefthander, Preacher Roe, gave up only six scattered hits while his teammates babied the one-run lead they...
...cameramen have carefully perceived things which Hollywood has only squinted at. They have caught the quick flash of sunlight off the front fender of a car. They have watched a pent-up ball of twine roll excitedly along a curbstone. They have found the texture of a masonry wall, and the quiet beauty of a row of tenements slanting downhill into the afternoon...
Leverett was able to move the ball against the Eliots, but its line couldn't keep the Elephant offense in check. The Bunnies' fine passing attack may pull off an upset, but it still looks like number two for the Puritans...