Word: mounds
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...LATE CHRISTY MATHEWSON of the New York Giants standards on the mound, pitching for a baseball team composed of stars who shone when that appellation still meant something. They are the aptly named Dead Knights, facing Ann Arbor's South Avenue Rovers. It is 1942, and the Rovers are home on furlough from all corners of the war. If they win, they will live to tell about it. If the Knights win, their coach, Death, will take the Rovers...
...SORT of inconsistency is the only major drawback of Things Invisible to See, but it is a big one. It is, essentially, a love story, but a novel that starts off with the Lord of the Universe and His archangels playing hall, and winds up with Mathewson on the mound and Lou Gehrig playing first, seems to call for a lot more baseball than Willard has seen fit to include. She certainly touches on an awful lot of other things, and perhaps it is because she does tackle so much that the leisurely. Saturday-afternoon-pickup air of the first...
Schindler, who started the year as a first baseman, has been surprisingly successful on the mound. In four appearances, he's thrown a total of seven innings, allowing just four hits...
...That's the best I've felt on the mound in two years." Musselman said afterwards. "I don't think I've pitched a better game...
Chris McAndrews' leadoff double in the third set up the second Crimson run. After McAndrews stole third with two out, Rivera brought him home again, this time with a chopper over the mound hit into center field...