Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this week and next should be interesting to all, and should be witnessed by as many as can possibly find time to attend. It would be a most welcome circumstance if the class feeling, which last spring's base-ball contests aroused, could be aroused to as high a pitch at this time over the battles on the foot-ball field. Let the members of the different classes encourage their teams by being present at the games, by evincing more than a passing interest in the results, and by showing how heartily they are able to cheer. The hearty cheering...
...attainment can find a field for their work. Of course, the games will not be highly scientific, but they will at least be highly entertaining. The desperation of many of the contests is a psychological phenomenon. How men can become so worked up to white heat, to such a pitch of frenzy over these games is worthy of the investigation of some giant intellect. But the healthiness of the excitement is indubitable, and the games are excelled in interest only by the perennial victory of the dusky men of Memorial over the celebrated "Who-Does" of Boston...
Again we see the same old spirit in the daily press, which is the outcome of, we know not what; love of sensation, desire to find some victim on whom they may pitch without fear of retaliation, jealousy, all these come in as partial causes. The result we know; exaggeration of the failings of college men, belittling of their virtues. If any little fracas occurs in a college town, if there is any unfortunate disturbance, at a ball, for instance, of course it is college men to whom it must be laid, and even if it is not quite certain...
...well contested, and the crews, though hastily gotten together, often row in really good form. The race between freshman eights serve the same purpose as does the clown in a circus. It is to be hoped, however, that the eighty-nine crews will not be wrought to such a pitch of enthusiasm as to attempt to drive their boats through the sea wall, as did the freshman crews of last year. The four oar and single working-boat races are generally of but little interest, and it is probable that the excitement caused by the victory of the CRIMSON crew...
...base hit - Willard. First base on balls by - Ryan, 1, Bingham, 4 First base on errors - Cambridge, 1; Harvard 1. Struck out by - Ryan, 8; Bingham, 10, Passed balls, Bertsch, 2; Young, 2. Wild pitch - Bingham. Left on bases - Cambridge, 1; Harvard, 1. Umpires - Beaman, Farrar. Time...