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Doyle turned in seven strong if erratic innings, scattering four singles, fanning ten, and awarding seven walks. In trouble all day long (mostly because he walked the leadoff batter in five of his seven frames). Doyle mixed his curveball and fastball to whiff his way out of his jams...
Engineer pitcher Carolyn Atwood finally retired her first batter when co-captain and right-fielder Betty Ippolito popped up to second. Catcher Gill Raney followed with an RBI groundout, scoring Schoofs, and Alissa Friedman, the eighth Crimson batter to go to the plate, ended the inning with a ground ball to the pitcher...
...first inning of that game, Morris recalls, the Harvard pitcher threw 26 straight balls before retiring her first batter...
...Hall of Fame brother "Dizzy," he compiled a lifetime record of 50-34 with an earned-run average of 3.75. Frankie Frisch, who was the Cardinals' second baseman and manager in 1934, once said that Daffy threw the "damndest, heaviest sinker you ever saw. When a batter hit one of those pitches, his hands stung as painfully in July as if he'd swung an icicle in December...
...today, would necessarily be the victim of specialization. But Leonardo knew more than anyone else in the late 15th century about statics, dynamics, hydraulics, geology, paleontology, optics, aerodynamics and anatomy. In the realms of craftsmanship, from the construction of domes and earthworks to the casting of cannon to batter them down, he seems to have known at least as much as any guild master. Nobody else in his time or culture had such a range of interests. Nor did anybody else share his depth of pessimism; for Leonardo, in his old age, was not Edison but King Lear, obsessed...