Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also known by a few that baseball permeates Harvard, Hawk-eyes may suspect such a fact by the frequent smack of ball against glove on the greens of the Houses, especially by the activity on Soldier's Field. Baseball is good at Harvard, too, and for several years Cambridge teams have sparkled in collegiate competition. It may be true that Harvard has not the best diamond and bleachers in the world, that this year the nine has given us a disappointing start; but considering that the Mayor of Harvard might have thrown the first ball...
...Skip Stanley's chief problems; right now he is alternating his new zone defence with the old man to man style of play. On the offense he is striving for more speed and scientific aggressiveness. Observers are predicting "more punch" for the 1937 edition of the first baseman's ball tossers. And there are a lot of good players...
...wins out of four games was the best the varsity baseball team could garner from its annual southern tour. Prospects looked bright in the initial contest with George Washington as the Crimson rapped out 16 hits for a 15-3 win. Ed Ingalls pitched good early season ball, limiting the enemy the six blows...
...watch the spring come in, not to fly to tropical summer or to stretch out winter to the crack of doom. It's the time for a dash on the young colt through country lanes in Connecticut, for tramping over wet hills, bag over shoulder, pushing a golf ball from bog to bog, trap to trap, and every so often sinking a birdie. Time to rise with the dawn, and hark to the lark in the trees by the edge of the lake in the morning mist, and watch the forsythia push forth in glory. And for the evening there...
...seized his driver, swung like a giant crane, and topped the ball just short of the green. There he grabbed a mashie, took another terrific swipe at the pellet, topped it again and it rolled into...