Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McInnis may start lefty Rufus "Spider" Webb for the first time this spring against the Huskies. If Webb does not start, the mound assignment will go to John Donelan, in order to save Bob Ward for this weekend's encounter at Cornell...
Husky coach Herb Gallagheer is not sure whether he will start his ace, southpaw senior Dick Sheldon, or his number two moundsman, sophomer right-hander John Costello, against the Crimson. If Sheldon is on the mound, McInnis will put Walt Greeley into right field in place of left-handed batter Ralph Robinson...
Marshall testified carefully, sometimes ploddingly; often he consulted his counsel, who sat at his side, or the mound of documents piled before him on the witness table. Often he avoided questions, referring them to the Chiefs of Staff or the Secretary of State, just as Douglas MacArthur had moved around questions with the explanation that they were not in the province of a theater commander. There was an added reason for Marshall's dogged caution: MacArthur had been speaking for himself alone; Marshall was spokesman for the Administration and the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
From the pitcher's mound the ball swooped in toward the plate in a lazy series of loops and parabolas, whooshed on past Eddie Robinson, clean-up hitter for the Chicago White Sox. Batter Robinson had never seen anything like it. Neither had thousands of viewers of last week's Garroway-at-Large (Sun. 10 p.m., NBC-TV). But they have grown to expect such gimmicks in a show that has always scored high in imaginative camera tricks...
...Quakers have made up for a lack of mound strength by effective power hitting. Leadoff batter Bill Deuber, catcher Jerry Cook, Captain Paul Fitzpatrick, and right fielder Noyes Yale have been particularly dangerous at the plate...