Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Phoenix, Ariz., 54-year-old Walter ("Dutch") Reuther, great southpaw pitcher of the 1920s, marched out to the mound. His assignment: to make a pitcher out of the New York Giants' young Clint Hartung, who could put plenty of speed on a ball but not a wrinkle of a curve. Just a year ago in spring training, Hartung (then an outfielder) was hailed as the most promising rookie of the year; but when it became apparent early in the season that he couldn't catch a fly-ball, Hartung was converted into a pitcher. He wasn...
Bill Connelly will be back on the mound after a forced absence last year when he was declared ineligible by Ivy League officials. Also returning is fireman Ira Godin, who started or came in to save many a game for the 1947 Crimson squad, and Landon Clay. Receivers for these moundsmen will be at a premium--at least ones as good as the graduated Bill Hamlen--but Cliff Crosby and Web Durant are attempting to fill the bill...
...desert Arabs does not depend on his height. He won it by learning to speak Arabic fluently, by scrupulously observing their customs and courtesies, by being firm but smiling and unassuming. At meals he squats on his haunches with them, dipping greasy fingers into the communal dish, kusi, a mound of rice and sour milk topped with a roast sheep stuffed with rice and dates...
Last week excited Soviet archeologists were studying a burial mound recently found in the Altai mountains near the boundary of Outer Mongolia. The mound showed a vivid glimpse of how the barbaric nomads buried an honored young woman some 2,000 years ago. Through the short summers of the Altai, the frozen tomb had preserved all its contents as if in a giant deepfreeze...
...Dodgers won the next one. Then in the ninth inning of the fourth game came the big moment. There were two men out, and two men on. The Dodgers were trailing 2-1. On the mound was the Yankees' big Bill Bevens, who was just a pitch or so from baseball immortality: in sight of the first no-hitter in World Series history...