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Word: pitch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fielding: Downer, MacPherson, Talbot, Magee, Anderson, W. D. Clark, Raymond, J. D. Merrill, Shattuck, Atkinson, Thayer, Odell, Bigelow, Hunneman, and J. Smith. There are now eight of the original freshman nine in college, of whom six will probably be able to play this spring. Downer or MacPherson will pitch, and if Litchfield can be prevailed upon to act as backstop, he will do most of the catching. The other candidates for catcher are Bigelow and Smith. For first base the candidates are Shattuck, Magee and Downer, if the latter does not pitch. It is as yet undecided who will fill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Candidates for the Junior Class Nine. | 4/26/1888 | See Source »

...nine. A much better team could have been chosen from our own men than that which represented Bowdoin yesterday. It is conducive to careless base running, poor fielding and slack play generally. It is enough to spoil any pitcher to tell him to "let them hit it" or to "pitch easy." We trust that no more nines of this description will play on Holmes this season. The game was called at the sixth inning on account of the lateness of the hour. The score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, 30; Bowdoin, 0. | 4/26/1888 | See Source »

...will play first base, and McCoy, Faulkner, Wardner, Bates, Vilia, Rublee, Dexter, DeLong and Wheelwright are candidates for the other infield positions. Piper, Codman, Koshland, Hapgood, Barney and Sabine are trying for the out-field. After half an hour's fielding work the men practised batting. McLeod did not pitch on account of a lame arm, and as Fullerton was obliged to leave, Butterworth did most of the work, but was relieved occasionally by Slade and DeLong. Captain McKean intends to have the men out now every afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The '90 Class Nine. | 4/26/1888 | See Source »

...number of stolen bases. Trinity presented an inexperienced man as third, who was not a success. The playing of Wright and Cheritree was, considering the weather, good. The visitors scored their two runs in the sixthinning on a three-base hit by Barber, a base on balls, a wild pitch and a sacrifice by Shannon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Defeats Trinity. | 4/23/1888 | See Source »

Holy Cross went out in order until the seventh inning, when their only run was made. With two men out, Higney made a hit, went to second and third on a wild pitch, and scored on Moran's hot liner to short...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Defeats Holy Cross. | 4/18/1888 | See Source »

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