Word: battered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second inning at Milwaukee's County Stadium, and the old man on the mound stared coldly at the old man in the batter's box-the Braves' Warren Spahn, 42, baseball's dean of pitchers, against the St. Louis Cardinals' Stan Musial, 42, who had just added Babe Ruth's extra-base hit record to the 54 other marks he holds or shares. Spahn wound up and threw. Crack! Thunk! Oof! A screaming line drive hit Spahn squarely in the belly. He staggered and fell. Somehow he picked up the ball and threw Musial...
...score indicates, Brandeis pitchers had along hard day on the mound. Particularly discouraged must have been the Judges' Boudreau, the first relief pitcher. He came in after five hitters, and left after 14; he allowed six hits, nine earned runs, three walks and failed to retire a single batter. Del Rossi gave up six hits and struck out five as he pocketed his sixth win of the year...
...with honors in history, Pearson briefly stuffed sausages in the Hamilton, Ont., branch of Armour & Co. (he was later to be accused by the Soviet news agency, Tass, of starting his career in an armaments factory). Saturdays, he played third base for the semi-pro Guelph Maple Leafs. "No batter," says Teammate Dink Carroll, now a Montreal Gazette sports columnist, "but a good glove man." When promoted to clerkship in Armour's Chicago fertilizer works, he applied for, and got, a scholarship to Oxford...
...game with even records of one win and one loss. Dick Garibaldi was effective for the Crimson, chalking up nine strikeouts. Three of these came in the seventh inning, after powerful Ray Carazo (three for five for the afternoon) slammed a long, long triple to right field. The next batter watched the third strike go by, and the next two went down swinging. The five free passed issued by the speedballer, however, didn't do much to aid the cause...
...this point left-fielder Curly Combs, whose batting average had dropped to below .100, quietly settled into the batter's box. A minute later he was flying around the bases on a well-hit triple to deep left field. St. George and Del Rossi touched home on the play, and Harvard assumed a 4-2 advantage. A wild pitch brought Combs in with the fifth and final...