Word: hoyt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realized when I was pitching high school ball, says James Hoyt Wilhelm, "that I wasn't fast enough to get by. I had read about Dutch Leonard and the kind of junk he was throwing for the Senators, and I set out to see if I couldn't throw some too." Hoyt Wilhelm's "junk" is the craziest knuckle ball in baseball today. It floats up to the plate, dances tantalizingly before batters' eyes like a butterfly, then breaks sharply and unpredictably. One night last week his knuckler broke all over the place, kept...
...Giants gave up on Wilhelm after the 1956 season, when he temporarily lost the knack of getting men out in tight spots. His knuckler was missing the corners, and when he got behind the batters, Hoyt was forced to use a fast ball or slider, with disastrous results. "Hoyt began to worry and try different things, and the more he changed, the worse it got," says Wes Westrum, the Giants' catcher in those days...
...wondering how it is that the name was changed in this fashion, for it was spelled correctly in the Nation. Perhaps the "ey" is a Harvard localism, like the British "...our," of which I have been unaware. yours &c., N. H. Hoyt Amherst...
Seconds after an Eli shot bounced off the post, Pratt juggled Hoyt Ammidon's 35-footer between his legs for a goal at 5:55 of the third period. The Crimson retaliated with goals at 7:03 and 8:06 by Collins and Higginbottom, both on rebounds from shots by a defenseman. Then with the score 5 to 4 and time running out, Yale was in the process of pulling its goalie when McGonagle rapped a high shot past Pratt from 10 feet to send the game into overtime...
Gantries & Sentries. Named for the late Air Force Chief of Staff (1948-53) General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, the new base is abuilding on 64,000 eucalyptus-strewn acres that in World War II and Korea were Army's Camp Cooke. Tattered bayonet targets, reminders of pre-pushbutton war, stand in a quiet tract, while 3,900 civilians and 3,500 airmen work busily around a futuristic maze: three 135-ft. Atlas gantries on nearly completed pads, three more Atlas pads still being poured, eight Thor pads, 8,000-ft. bases for electronic tracking, a hangar-shaped missile-assembly building...