Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...batter's head, and the Fallon crowd poured out of the stands, bent on tar-and-feathering McCulloch. But cooler heads prevailed; they argued that after all McCulloch had just presented the Merchants with three runs. The fans returned to the stands and McCulloch went back to the mound. Respectfully, the Merchants stood far back from the plate. But Frank's sizzler began to work. He went on to strike out 19 batters and even walloped a seventh-inning homer, but the damage was done-Verdi lost...
...full-dress expedition followed and attacked a promising mound called Beycesultan on the headwaters of the Meander* River. First find was archaeological peanuts: a Byzantine town about 2,000 years younger than Arzawa. Under the Byzantine ruins, the diggers uncovered a row of small houses that had been destroyed by fire. Mixed in the ruins were the telltale "champagne glasses." The first bit of Arzawa had come into the sunlight...
Going into his last contest, Ward had pitched five complete games, won them all, and allowed only three earned runs. But as the Crimson lost the team title to Yale, 8 to 3, Ward lost mound laurels. Eli Ken Mackenzie who bested him in that final game, ranked fourth in League hurling with...
Legal Headache. When the Dodgers took the field, Pitcher Don Newcombe, just a little bigger than life (6 ft. 4 in., 225 Ibs.), shambled to the mound. The week before, Don had decided that he was just too good to pitch batting practice. Smokey, who had handled Newcombe before, in Nashua, N.H., in Class "B" ball, had quietly told him to clean out his locker and go away. Now, threatened with a fine and properly penitent, Big Don whizzed through a one-hit game. He blew down the absolute minimum of 27 batters as the Dodgers...
Penn's new coach, Jack McClosky, will start junior Tony Plaskonos on the mound against either Andy Ward or Ken Rossano. Both Ward and Rossano turned in their top performances of the year in their top performances of the year in their last outings...