Word: passeau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ground. By the time it reached home plate, if not before, it was dry. Growled Ott: "Sliders and sinkers revolve-you can't see the stitches on the seams as they come to the plate like you can with a spitter." Other pitchers-Rip Sewell, Fred Ostermueller, Claude Passeau-have been unofficially accused of using "spit-sweat" balls in pinches. They deny it, and so does Schoolboy Rowe...
...Fewest batters to reach first base in one full game-2 against Chicago's Passeau (third game...
...second game Mary O'Neill heard her man hum a few snatches: "All I can promise is a cozy little cottage. . . ." As usual, win or lose, Steve had bran flakes with peaches for dinner. But Grimm had a trump to play. For ten days he had rested Claude Passeau's ancient and ailing arm. After the third game, Lillian Grimm's floor-pacer passed a restful night...
...Against Passeau's sinkers and sliders, nary a Tiger reached second base. For the first time in 39 years, the World Series had a one-hitter. Score: Chicago 3, Detroit...
Trucks lasted four innings, was followed by four Tiger pitchers. Big Hank's second homer of the series evened the score in the eighth inning. Passeau lasted six, Wyse one; Borowy was the fourth Cub hurler, and the winner-after 28 hits and five errors in twelve innings, the longest World Series game on record (3 hrs. 28 min) Score: Chicago 8, Detroit...