Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...what they offer by pursuing them in the wrong spirit. To my thinking, the sport most in need of reform now is not football (though that is far from perfect), but baseball. It is hard to conceive of anything meaner than tripping an adversary as he runs past a base, or "rattling" a batsman with derisive language poured into his ear by the catcher, or "breaking up" a pitcher and a visiting team by that organized cheering which is designed to make up for the home team's misplays by causing misplays among the visitors. Yet such things are tolerated...
...University team was clearly outplayed in all departments of the game, especially in hitting. H. Martin pitched a masterly game for Tufts, striking out 15 men and allowing but two hits, while Ernst was credited with four strike-outs and allowed eight hits. Martin gave one base on balls to three for Ernst. Only five Harvard men reached first base, and two of these on errors and one on a base on balls. Carr got the only two hits for Harvard, and in each case stole second; nobody got to third. Six errors by the University team gave Tufts several...
...eighth inning neither side advanced a runner past second. In the first half of that inning, after Templeton had been put out on a fly to Aronson, Lambie was given his base. Brown followed with a fly to left field which Kelly missed, advancing Lambie to second. Ayres made the lone hit for his side, a short single over Carr's head, filling the bases with one out. Trumbull raised a long fly to Kelly, and Lambie scored on the throw home. This left men on first and third. A double steal, and clever work by Young and Potter, caught...
...Harvard, the eighth inning opened with Hicks's strike-out. Carr was passed, and went to second on Trumbull's catch of McLaughlin's foul fly near the first base fence. Potter followed with a long two-base hit to centre field which Hamilton could not reach, scoring Carr with the first run. Winter's poor handling of Aronson's difficult grounder advanced Potter to third, but he was left there when Lanigan fanned...
Carr was the first man up in the tenth inning. For the third strike, Templeton pitched a low ball which escaped the catcher, and Carr reached first base before the ball was recovered. McLaughlin put him on second with a well-placed bunt and, after Carr had stolen third, Potter was passed to first. On an attempted double steal, Lambie made a wild throw past third, on which Carr crossed the plate with the winning run of the game...