Word: balled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just go out there and watch that ball, following it well, and this year I'm thinking right and I'm quicker and I'll hit it out of the park...
...think they're really racist most of them, but you know that those people who say this and that don't really care about the ball club. So why should I care about them? Let them do the hitting, and answer the questions...
...Colombo sent Scannell around third with a line single to left. Scannell came in standing up when Harvard left fielder Jim Peccerillo's throw sailed high, and Colombo made it all the way to third when Steward--backing up home--tried to get Colombo at second and javelined the ball into center field...
Before the 1877 season at Cambridge catchers tended to be gap-toothed individuals with rather leathery hands, as they caught the ball sans mitt. Understandably, the catcher stood well behind the plate near the backstop...
...pitchers in those days fired the ball underhand, standing only 45 feet from the plate. A "cross-fire" was created by the pitcher moving along a six-foot painted strip from which he made his delivery. In short, before Thayer's brainstorm the lot of the backstop was "nasty, brutish, and short...