Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pitcher Ron Necciai, 19, of the Class D Appalachian League, looks like a refugee from a basketball team. As he unwinds his lanky (6 ft. 5 in., 185 Ibs.) frame on the pitcher's mound, his earnest contortions have a fatal fascination for batters. They can't seem to keep their eyes on the ball. In his first pitching start for the Bristol (Tenn.) Twins this year, Necciai struck out 20 men. He struck out 19 in his second game. In a relief role, he struck out 11 men in four innings. Last week, mixing a crackling fast...
...pair of back to back extra base hits in the top of the thirteenth gave Tufts a 2 to 1 lead Russ Johnson leading off in the bottom of the frame, popped to first. Captain Charley Walsh started the Crimson rally, singing sharply to right center...
...Hindeman, the losing pitcher, was almost as effective in limiting undefeated Hollis to six hits. But poor support ruined him in the final frame. The Weld first baseman dropped an easy pop fly, putting a runner on base with one out. After a single on which the runner was thrown out trying for third, the batter moved to second and scored the winning run when the next man also singled...
...occupation. The tone of the story is cool, almost detached, but its tragic quality comes through no less clearly for that. Author Blunden has obviously pondered his War and Peace; like Tolstoy, though on a far more modest scale, he has tried to fit a human drama into the frame of contemporary history...
Each team had two unearned runs going into the last frame of the first game. Arnold, who had allowed only two hits and struck out seven, started his own downfall by walking pitcher Bruce Maclvor. A sacrifice moved Maclvor to second, and an infield hit put runners on first and third. McInnis then ordered Es Parker intentionally passed, bringing up Jim Churchill, the clean-up hitter and captain. The strategy proved disastrous when Churchill drove a base-clearing triple to right center and scored a moment later on a fly ball...