Word: bases
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Ernst's pitching was wonderfully effective and Thatcher's catching almost faultless. Our outfielders had a good deal of work to do, and did it without an error. The only two serious faults in our nine seem to be want of judgment, at times, in their base running, and a tendency to become nervous when the bases are full...
...University Nine is made up as follows: Thatcher, '77, catcher; Ernst, '76, pitcher; Leeds, '77, s. s.; Wright, '79, 1st base; Sawyer, '77, 2d base; Thayer, '78, 3d base; Latham, '77, left field; Tyng, '76, centre field; Dow, '77, right field; Bird, '77, Tower, '77, substitutes...
...Harvard vs. Brown (base-ball), on Jarvis Field...
...Harvard vs. Brown (base-ball), at Providence...
...taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man." As an equally apposite argument, though not of so high authority, I would suggest that haste makes waste; there are those that go out for wool and come home shorn; the pitcher that goes too often to the home base has his nose broken at last; every tub should stand upon its own bottom, - all of which are exceedingly good a priori arguments and bear directly on the point...