Word: benching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writing this on the home bench just before the Mass. Aggies-Vermont baseball game. The team has just gone through some snappy infield practice--the fellows look good. We don't know what the outcome of today's contest will be. After all, that doesn't matter so much. What makes us feel proud and happy to be a "V" student is the fact that we see a wonderful bunch of fellows out there on the field, willing and anxious to advance the Green and Gold banner of baseball prestige as far as they are able to do so. They...
...Iron Man" after the ball had bounced off the back of Joe's neck, on the throw-in by Hoffman. McGinity managed to throw the ball over near third where a fan captured it. Steinfeld grabbed the fan from behind and during the struggle Floyd Kroh . . . rushed from the bench and rescued the ball, returning it to Evers. O'Day watched the mix-up and after seeing Evers with the ball standing on second walked off the diamond?reserving his decision on Merkle's out until he was away from the crowd. . . . This is just another version...
...Mallon news this time was that nine Democrats had combined with 35 conservative Republicans to put Mr. Lenroot on the bench. The significance of the news, quite overshadowing the individual secret votes of Senators, was its manifestation of a growing Press policy, led by the United Press, to break down the fiction of secret Senate sessions by showing their futility...
...Morison, though, had helpful teammates: John Augustus Hartwell (now a famed Manhattan surgeon) in the line; Thomas Lee McClung (onetime [1909-1912] Treasurer of the U. S.) and Vance Criswell McCormick (Democratic National Committee Chair-man in Wilson's 1916 campaign) in the backfield. And on the substitutes' bench sat Thomas Cochran (Morgan partner and Director of General Electric) and Ralph Delahay Paine (author of College Years, The Head Coach, The Stroke Oar, Campus Days...
...opening frame when the University sluggers gave Hollstrom a hot reception, banging out five consecutive hits for four runs. Two were down when McGrath singled and Donaghy slammed out his homer. Safeties by Prior, Whitney, and Gilligan accounted for the other two tallies. Both sides were sent to the bench in short order during the two ensuing cantos...