Word: hit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brown pitcher, Dave Manson, scattered five Crimson hits and permitted only one baserunner to get as far as third. He displayed a good fast-ball and curve, but his main asset was remarkably fine control. By keeping his pitches at just about knee-height, he forced most Crimson batsmen to hit on the ground; and, in addition, he walked only...
...thing that happened to Wadsworth in the very first inning should never happen to any pitcher. After allowing a long, lead-off triple, the stocky right-hander bore down and struck out the number-two Brown hitter, and then got the three and four men to hit easy infield grounders. These should have been routine "outs," but instead they resulted in an aggregate of three errors by Crimson fielders...
Somewhat unnerved by these developments, Wadsworth proceeded to allow a walk, a single, a hit batsman, another single, and another walk--in that order. The Crimson kicked in with a fourth error, and when the dust had settled, Brown had a five-run lead...
...Crimson squeezed out two runs from one hit and one base on balls, to break a scoreless tie in the fourth inning. Al Martin drew the walk as leadoff batter and was sacrificed to second by John Davis. Chet Boulris laced a single to center, advancing Martin to third. Boulris then stole second and a moment later followed Martin across the plate when Charlie Ravenel grounded...
From Hannibal to Space. Inventor Lear's restlessness hit early. Born in Hannibal, Mo., Mark Twain's home town, he enlisted in the Navy at 16, was made a radio instructor at the Great Lakes Training Station. He learned so much that, discharged at 18, he soon opened his own radio consulting and manufacturing firm. Among his early jobs: designing a special coil that made possible the first practical commercial auto radio. He learned to fly, and in 1930 opened an aviation-electronics business that turned out the first practical light-plane radio. After World War II, Lear...