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...Tussle's name was later changed to Flowery Mound...
...Younger pitchers nursed sore arms and cursed the "rabbit ball," but New York's Whitey Ford, 33, and Milwaukee's Warren Spahn, 40, kept on winning ball games. Spahn's fast ball had lost its zip, and his legs were rubbery from 22 years on the mound, but he parlayed a new slider and an old pro's cunning into the best all-round record of any major-league pitcher. Spahn led the National League in complete games (21), earned-run average (3.01) and consecutive, victories (10), tied Cincinnati's Joey Jay for most games...
Happy Days (by Samuel Beckett) pursues the playwright's favorite thesis that life is slow death. The setting is a scorched plain, blazing with light. Throughout Act I, Winnie, the so-year-old heroine, is buried up to her waist in a mound of earth; throughout Act II, she is buried up to her neck. So much for action and plot. For subplot, her husband Willie scuttles in and out of a hole behind the mound, and, keeping his back to the audience, leafs through a yellowed newspaper...
...seven sons. Lary comes from a pitching family; six of the Lary boys were pitchers in high school, college or professional ball; the seventh caught all the brothers. Lary's father, a cotton farmer in Alabama's red-clay country, set up a pitcher's mound and a plate in the front yard, made all his sons practice after their chores. After two years at the University of Alabama. Lary quit college to sign a contract with the Tigers, joined Detroit in 1955. won 14 games in his rookie year. The next season. Lary was foundering with...
...combination of players too young to be good and too old for ambition, has won only 34 games, a meager victory assortment widely diffused by 88 defeats. In a fruitless effort to break the losing habit, Manager Mauch has shifted his players into unfamiliar positions, paraded pitchers to the mound, used as many as 17 players a game, and even tried applied psychology. "Do what you want to," he ordered his men one night after a humiliating defeat. "There's no curfew tonight...