Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three hits, two walks, two errors by the infield, and the pitcher's hesitation on a double-play ball were enough to give Holy Cross three unearned runs in their half of the fourth. Adding three additional tallies and stifling Harvard's attempted rallies the Crusaders held the margin of victory throughout the remainder of the contest...
Bill Lincoln pitched nice ball for the invaders allowing nine hits, while Roy Bruninghaus gave out an equal number for the Crusaders, but was touched more liberally by the revamped Harvard line-up than he had been on Wednesday...
...crowd of 10,000, convinced that Little is as great a golfer as Jones, whose portrait hangs in the St. Anne's clubhouse, watched the ball rolling, more and more slowly now, straight toward the cup. Instead of going in, it slipped irrevocably past. Dr. Tweddell walked across the green, tapped Little's ball to concede the match and grinned as he shook hands...
...about 900% more than normal-crowded Crosley Field to examine such a contest. In the crowd were baseball dignitaries like President Ford Frick of the National League, President William Harridge of the American League. Signal for the performance to start was not the umpire's cry of "Play ball!" but another gesture, equally perfunctory but far more impressive-the pushing of a button in Washington by President Roosevelt. What made the subsequent proceedings newsworthy was that for the first time in baseball history two major-league teams played a championship game at night...
...first night game ever played on a major-league field took place on the same field as last week's, between Elks from Cincinnati and Newport, Ky. Wrote Reporter Jack Ryder in the Cincinnati Enquirer: "If the attempt is a success it is likely that every ball park in the major leagues will be equipped with lighting apparatus." In 1927, it began to look as if Ryder's premature prophecy might eventually come true, when minor leagues began to experiment seriously with night baseball. Depression encouraged the idea. By last season, 70 minor-league clubs had installed floodlights...