Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columbia's big gun this year is Bill Swiacki, present catcher and a standout end with the football team. Rounding out the starting battery, Coach Andy Coakley will send Tellef Tellefson to the mound. His squad is strengthened by four members of last year's team, and is further colored by several gridiron greats left over from the fall...
Boston's pennant winning Red Sox open the 1947 Hub baseball season this afternoon against the washed-out Washington Senators at Fenway Park, as Manager Joe Cronin sends his ace right-hander, Cecil (Tex) Hughson, to the mound to oppose "Bobo" Newsome...
Finally-bingo!-a shiny new sedan piled smack into the mound. Satisfied onlookers crowded around to console the driver, who stood in the sand and held his smashed nose...
Burke casually struck the mound with a pick, heard a ping and felt rock beneath. He and Bromley pulled away the moss. Said Burke later: "I was pretty excited. Free gold in flakes...
...kept the news to themselves, staked all the claims the law allows (nine each) before rushing out to Sudbury to register their find. When they did, they carried a first sample of ore that assayed $665 a ton, and an estimate, based on preliminary probing, that their gold-bearing mound was an outcrop of a 3,500-ft.-long vein...