Word: cobb
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Howe and Cobb were the battery for Harvard. Howe pitched a very fair game, striking out eleven men and giving only four bases on balls. In the ninth inning, however, he went to pieces, much as in some of last year's games, and helped to let in two runs, one of them earned. Cobb was very wild in his base throwing and did not show up very well in batting. Again Cook threw wild to first on his only chance. Dickinson played a very steady game at first...
...beginning of the eighth inning. As he ran bases, he failed apparently to touch second, but in the excitement Sexton ran up to the coacher's line thereby becoming a second coach, and then started across the diamond to make Steere go back to second. For this interference, Cobb promptly called the base-runner out, according to league rules. At this decision Brown went off the field, leaving Harvard winners, with the runs six to three, even innings. In addition to this unpleasant occurrence, the Brown coachers made themselves very unsportsmanlike, in resorting to the worn-out devices of howling...
...Mason, Corbett, (2); Cook, (2); Tenney, Steere. First base on errors, Harvard, 2; Brown, 4. Struck out, Corbett, Upton, Highlands, Sexton, (3); Woodcock, (3); Steere, Cook, (2); McLane, (2). Left on bases, Harvard, 10; Brown, 7. Passed balls, Upton, Tenney. Wild pitches, Highlands, 2. Time, 2 hrs. Umpires, Mr. Cobb, Harvard, and Mr. Warbridge, Providence...
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...Howe and Cobb were the battery for the first four innings, and Highlands and Upton played the rest of the game. The score...