Word: meeham
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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Meanwhile, by far the most active operative on the Tufts side of the field was coach Bob Meeham, who carried on a running verbal battle with the plate umpire that would have earned him a thumb and a shower in any professional game. His loud-spoken comments to the unfortunate arbiter included such pleasantries as "rabbit-ears," "Get into the ball game," and assorted profanities...
...first these exchanges were sparked by mere ball and strike calls. But in the third inning, when the Crimson scored all its runs, Meeham stopped play and charged about the diamond disputing one call for a full five minutes, finally declaring that he was continuing the game under protest...
When the umpire disallowed this, Meeham rushed to the scene to claim the ball was fair afer all. He soon shifted his ground to the stronger plea that the infield fly rule should be in force and the batter ruled automatically out. The umpire's apparent answer to this was, first of all, that he hadn't invoked the infield fly rule, which is left to his descretion, and secondly, that the rule didn't apply because the ball had bounced foul...
...Meeham finally retired, thumbing through his rule book, and Boulris went on to line a scoring single to left. Right fielder Mo Balboni followed suit with a shot to center, sending home the fourth run of the inning. The earlier tallies came on a single by captain John Davis and a throwing error on Charlie Ravenel's grounder, after Mouse Kasarjian had walked and George Harrington had popped a bunt single over the charging second baseman's head...