Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson beat Brandeis 27 to 8 in a three-ring circus that saw six pitchers, including a major portion of the Brandeis outfield, parade across the mound in a vain attempt to control a 20-hit Harvard attack which included four home runs, a triple, and three doubles. It was often entertaining. But with the fine Holy Cross game only a day in the past, one had trouble calling it baseball...
Worming his way up through a big mound of original biographical information forms turned over to him by the publishers of Who's Who in America, Chicago Bookseller Ralph G. Newman emerged to announce that he had unearthed scads of tidbits on how the Who's Whoers see, or saw, themselves. Some of Biographile Newman's findings in his initial browsing among more than 1,000,000 forms: Dwight Eisenhower is "about the only man" who keeps on shortening rather than lengthening his write-up. Harry S. Truman keeps insisting that the S is a full middle...
Bruin coach Lefty Lefebvre will send right-handed, curve-baller Don Nelson to the mound today. Nelson held Princeton to two runs while beating them last Friday, although he needed help from Gary Vander Veer, Brown's fine relief hurier, in the ninth...
...McGinnis will start on the mound for the varsity, probably facing Husky captain Dodd, who is reportedly the best of Northeastern's pitchers. And it is on the mound that the Huskies are strongest...
Receiving Repetto behind the plate will again be Phil Haughey. Although Haughey's hitting has not lived up to the hopes raised by his performance in the M.I.T. game, immediately following the southern swing, he seems assured of his starting position, partly because of his popularity with the mound crew, and partly because possible alternative Matt Botsford has not hit a great deal better. More important probably, is coach Norm Shepard's disinclination to juggle a winning lineup...