Word: foul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pitcher Rip Coleman, who was holding his own on the mound, was due at the plate. But Casey yanked him in favor of Pinch-Hitter Bob Cerv, who stepped up and hit a single. Two runs scored. Then Outfielder Elston Howard bounced a home run off the right-field foul pole...
...wife-very rich and too old for him-is laid to rest. His friends are touched by his noble composure in the face of tragedy. Then he goes home alone, glances at the huge portrait of his late wife, and his satisfied smile confirms the growing suspicion that foul murder has been done. The camera switches to the mansion's cellar, where Housemaid Jean Simmons, her wits sharpened by adversity, has just finished dosing some rats with a little of the medicine that was given to her ailing mistress. The rats are dead...
...them happy; something with a nice fancy-sounding title, like Superintendent of Sanitation, that an Italian would love." But district leader? Never. Tammany's executive committee refused to seat De Sapio. When De Sapio's followers picketed both the hall and Finn's office, Finn cried foul. "It's in line with all the tactics they've been using," he said. Then, darkly: "I might even say it smells strongly of Communism...
...once-a-week ball fan may think of the catcher merely as a target for the pitcher to shoot at. Actually, the job is the most demanding in baseball. A good catcher must be able to take punishment. Foul tips batter his hands; the batter's big club swishes past his skull; base runners hit him with intent to maim as they slide for home. Through it all he must use his head, for he is baseball's tactical commander, its platoon leader. He must watch the signs according to the batter, the score, the inning. He must...
...next two years, the Dodgers came close-but never quite close enough -to another pennant. Campy, too, had good years and bad breaks. In September 1950 he grabbed at a foul tip and suffered a dislocation of his right thumb. That winter, the hot-water heater in his home blew up in his face. As the year wore on, Campy picked up a startling assortment of injuries: a split thumb from a foul ball hit by the Athletics' Eddie Joost in an exhibition game, a bruised hip (during a slide), a chipped elbow when Whitey Lockman of the Giants...