Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ready to follow these gentlemen to the mound in any or all games, lefty Joe Page won 13, lost eight, in a return to the form that gave the Yankees the 1947 world championship...
...Donora High's star pitcher. He was also bat boy during the summer for the zinc works' semi-pro team, managed by Joe Barbao. One day, with his club shorthanded and his pitcher wilting before the Monessen (Pa.) sluggers, Joe sent Bat Boy Musial to the mound. The rest of the team thought it was a joke until Musial struck out a batter: he wound up by striking out 13 men in six innings...
...third day, the roof fell in. Brooklyn's starting pitcher, Negro Don Newcombe, was shelled off the mound before he could get a single man out. Stan the Man made it an informal Musial Day by hitting for the cycle-a single, double, triple and home run-with a base on balls for good measure. Final score, with help from other old Cards like Outfielder Enos
...Mound of Stones. The announcement gave no details. What actually happened was this...
Meyer Tobiansky was buried at once, in a rocky hillside near the Arab village, a small stone mound marking his grave...