Word: mounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four weary seasons Cincinnati's Jim Brosnan trudged through the National League as a journeyman pitcher. This year, Brosnan has become a star. Against San Francisco last week, he sauntered to the mound in the eleventh inning, gave up no runs in two innings, and was credited with the 3-2 victory. That gave Brosnan a record of 6-2 (he has saved a dozen other games), lowered his e.r.a. to 2.33, second in the league only to the 2.30 of the Cardinals' Lindy McDaniel, and proved again that he has developed into one of the best relief...
...boys, Brosnan is one of the game's rarer types: he reads Rousseau and Nietzsche, puffs on a pipe, studies his fellows through owlish spectacles, and naturally is nicknamed "the Professor." He is fond of recalling how he once dumfounded a batter by declaring from the mound: "Us ne passeront...
Bibleland archaeologists have long suspected that the tiny Arab village of el-Jib eight miles northwest of Jerusalem hides fascinating secrets. The village stands on an oval man-made mound, and the experts think that it may cover Gibeon, an ancient city whose inhabitants, according to the Book of Joshua, made a deal with the invading Israelites and so were not slaughtered, only enslaved. For four years, Professor James B. Pritchard of Church Divinity School of the Pacific, whose passion is checking the historical accuracy of the Old Testament, dug at el-Jib. He found many interesting things, including...
...pots belonged to the middle Bronze Age well before Joshua and the Israelites invaded the Holy Land about 1200 B.C. Dr. Pritchard not only bought the pots but hired the woman as his "consultant." After a little coaxing she took him to her tomato patch on top of the mound, showed him a hole leading to a rifled Bronze Age tomb. More coaxing persuaded her to probe with an iron rod (a traditional tool of grave robbers) and show the archaeologist a series of circular stones covering more tombs...
...Steve Dalkowski was midway through his best season, with six wins and ten losses. He was leading the league in strikeouts, with 170-and, of course, in walks, with 162. Manager DeMars was almost hopeful. Said DeMars: "If I could sit in a chair behind the pitcher's mound and just tell him not to get nervous, he'd be a major leaguer right now." As for Steve Dalkowski, he wanted only to live down his own legend. "It's no picnic," he said, "watching every other batter walk to first...