Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend, his lawyer, had been unable to prevent the gruesome lynching of his one good child, Wee Boy. The bankers were forced to sell every inch of land Old Man Towne had ever owned. When the old man heard that, he died. The lawyer buried him in an Indian mound, and the Negroes raised above him their rich shout of "resurrection and green pastures and surcease of toil...
...fans it looked like the good old days. The Babe, swinging two bats, stepped up to the plate with choppy little strides of his matchstick legs. Farmer Johnson shuffled awkwardly around the mound, his long right arm winding up the historic sidearm delivery. The first pitch was low and inside, the second a called strike. Ruth popped the third into right field, the fourth was ball two. Then the crowd let out a mighty roar as the Babe walloped the ball up, up, up into the right-field stands. Fourteen pitches later, he clouted another, trotted around the bases...
After early season ups and downs, the Crimson has developed an attack to match Berg's consistently fine and sometimes spectacular work on the mound. Provided that the poor batting background at Brown's Aldrich Field doesn't throw their timing off, the Harvard line-up should keep hurler Nichols and the Bruin outfielders hustling this afternoon
...Saturday the ball club will complete a stiff weekend of baseball, by facing the Langdon Field team at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Either Jack Stanton or Irv Rudman is scheduled to handle the mound duties...
...served not only as revenge for a previous loss to the soldiers, but also brought the Crimson's summer record up to four wins and six losses. Berg on the mound and Need Fitzgibbons at the plate proved the shot-in-the-arm necessary to raise the team from the doldrums...