Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Yankees paid an estimated $40,000 to transport 215 pounds of first baseman across the Harlem River August 22. John Mize paid it all back in Ebbets Field yesterday afternoon with a ninth-inning, bases-loaded pinch hit single that beat the Dodgers...
...Mize, pinch-hitting for Mapes, knocked in two runs with a single, Branca headed for the showers, and Jack Banta came in to pitch to Gorry Coleman, whose base-clearing Texas League double had provided the three runs that gave the Yanks the pennant Sunday...
Rackely replaced Carl Furillo, who suffered a groin injury last week, but Marv twisted his back while backing up a forth inning line drive to Duke Snider, and Luis Olmo came in to play left field, Hermanski was stationed in Furillo's right field berth until Carl pinch hit for him in the ninth. Mike McCormick played the spot in the last half inning...
John Mize singled as a pinch-hitter for Silvera in the eighth, and Snuffy Stirnweiss went in the ran for him, but Bobby Brown, in for Raschi, struck out. Gus Niarhos came in to catch the ninth
Invitation to Suicide. Pennsylvania-born Hap Arnold hadn't planned to go to West Point in the first place. His older brother had the appointment and ditched it, but small-town Dr. Arnold was determined that one of his sons should become an officer. Hap was persuaded to pinch-hit, was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant of infantry in 1907. When he saw Louis Bleriot's English Channel-hopping monoplane on exhibition in Paris in 1909, he didn't even know what the freakish contraption was. When he figured it out, his first.thought forecast the futures of both...