Word: clutch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quick thrust forward, and the big bat whips around. It has connected often enough to make him the league's second-ranking batsman, after his teammate Bobby Avila. (Average .340, 14 home runs, 55 runs batted in.) If the Rosen bat keeps coming through in the clutch for the second half of the season, the Indians may well be the team that breaks the Yankees' long lease (five in a row) on the American League pennant...
Main factor in the varsity's victory was the clutch pitching of Kon Rossano and Andy Ward, who split the pitching duties. Between them they left 14 Eli men on base...
Listless pitching and poor hitting in the clutch cost the Crimson the victory. Pitchers Bob Kessler, Jim Fitzgibbons, and Bob Cooke allowed the Judges 13 hits. Kessler, the starter, left the game halfway through the second inning and reliefer Fitzgibbon was pulled out for a pinch-hitter in the eighth...
...pass one another, en route, all unknowing, I wonder; one of us spry-eyed, with clean, white lectures and a soul he could call his own, going buoyantly west to his remunerative doom in the great state university factories; another returning dog-eared as his clutch of poems and his carefully typed impromptu asides? I ache for us both. There one goes, unsullied as yet, in his Pullman pride, toying-oh, boy!-with a blunderbuss bourbon, being smoked by a large cigar, riding out to the wide open spaces of the faces of his waiting audience...
...Upstairs (Kay Starr; Capitol). Typical advice on where to go for help in the clutch-to God himself. Climbing the bestseller steps...