Word: box
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...were little stronger than in the field. Seven hits are more than Harvard has sometimes made when Stagg was in the box, but yesterday Stagg had a lame arm. Moreover he was seriously handicapped by his catcher's inability to hold him. Still again, Harvard gauged Stagg's delivery last year and is supposed this year to have a better batting team than usual...
Bowers, the Yale pitcher, is doing excellent work in the box...
...entirely obliterated, and is little used. Just beyond is the ground used until recently by the freshmen. It is undoubtedly the best diamond, but in some places the ground is bare and heavy, and in others rough and grassy. What is true about the pitcher's and batter's box of this diamond is true of all the others. The pitchers and batsmen flounder in hollows in their attempts to deliver and bat the ball. The wooden home plate is so far above the level of the ground that sliding is not to be thought...
...Worcester nine had their revenge yesterday for the defeat which they sustained here a week ago Saturday. Connie Murphy struck out four times on that occasion and resolved to get even. Consequently he came in yesterday from the out-field to the pitcher's box. Though he struck out only four men he succeeded in preventing the Harvard team from hitting safely more than twice. Sullivan pitched the first inning, and one hit was made off his delivery. These three hits were all our nine could make, try how they would. But the chief fault in their play...
...fourth Worcester failed to score. The first three Harvard men at the bat went out. In the fifth Howe took Bates' place in the box. Worcester made a run on a base on balls, a hit, a wild pitch and Howe's muff at the plate of Cobb's throw. Again Harvard's first three men went out, two of them at second base...