Word: mitt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solution that repels wood, Ray Milland wins 38 ball games in the regular season for St. Louis, then goes on to win four more in the World Series. Every time a bat gets near one of the magic pitches, the ball hops up and over, into the catcher's mitt. The whole picture is just as ridiculous as the ball's behavior and, as such, makes delightful summer entertainment...
Making baseball history is a cinch with the help of a moist pad concealed in the hollow of his pitcher's mitt. Every time his wood-repellent ball comes steaming across the plate, it takes a neat little hop over the advancing bat. In no time, Miland is the star pitcher in a heated World Series. Everything, in fact, is going fine until his roommate and catcher (Paul Douglas) starts using the precious solution as a hair tonic. This leads to some minor plot complications and further belaboring of the film's one gag, which has already been...
...Angeles' Wrigley Field, the Pirates obligingly rifled 80% of their hits squarely at Bing. Crosby, a fair country ballplayer, stopped the ones that wouldn't knock out his front teeth, clowned on the rest of them. He hit fungoes, played around with a catcher's mitt (see cut). Then Bing watched morosely while his peanut-jinxed Pirates lost to the Chicago Cubs, 4-3. A week later the Pirates took on the Cleveland Indians, and 4,200 Californians could see how Cleveland's Bob Feller earns his $87,000 a year. In the five innings Feller...
...Help at First. Branch Rickey's do's & don'ts strangely enough, did not include any instructions on how to play baseball. Although Jackie had played second base or shortstop all his life, he was handed a first-baseman's mitt and sent out to sink or swim at a new position -first base. Being right-handed was no help: first base is a left-hander's position. It is easier for a left-hander to throw from first to any other base, and easier to pick a man off the bag. Only...
...inside pitch. Blackwell rocked into his windup. As he let go, his long right arm snapped around as if he were cracking a snake-whip. His complicated delivery made it look as if he were about to fall down, but the ball plunked squarely into the catcher's mitt. Three pitches later the lead-off man for the highly touted American Leaguers had struck...