Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this lead wasn't enough against Tufts, the N.C.A.A. District One champion. With Barry Turner on the mound for the Crimson, the Jumbos sandwiched two singles and a double around walks and sloppy fielding to take the lead with four runs. An error and two hits gave Tufts another run in the sixth...
...Lauber took over the Tufts pitching chores in the fifth inning, and hurled scoreless ball for the four innings he was on the mound. The Harvard batters could do nothing with his low curve, which consistently found the outside corner...
...form, having taken two league games without any setbacks. Barry Turner has improved considerably to the point where Coach McInnis can now rotate his two man staff easily. The one Crimson weakness, and the one which was responsible for the great number of its defeats, the lack of adequate mound strength for relief purposes, has been solved by the appearance of Cliff Crosby on the hill in tough spots...
Using a fire-engine red Jeepster, Greenberg hustled relief pitchers out of Cleveland's bull pen, got them to the mound in a matter of seconds compared to the ambling three to five minutes usually required. Less colorful, but equally timesaving, were two other Greenberg suggestions which the Indians now follow: 1) make a pitcher wait his batting turn in the "on deck" circle instead of in the dugout, and 2) make him go to the mound more promptly at the start of each inning. These stunts, the Cleveland management figured, had already cut the time of games...
...flash decision. Already the author of a lively biography of William Tecumseh Sherman (1932), Lewis had been collecting research on Grant for a dozen years. At Libertyville, freed from the grind of daily journalism, 54-year-old Lloyd Lewis began to burrow into his mound of notes...