Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunny sidewalk outside a bookstore on Hollywood's North Vermont Avenue, a legless pencil peddler had set up his pitch. A pretty young woman knelt down beside him and began to ask him questions. Did he think Communists should be barred from jobs in vital U.S. industries? In a muddy Italian accent the peddler replied that he knew nothing about Communists, but he did know that he was paying too much for his $40-a-month room. Did he know who John L. Lewis was? That was easier. "Eez a boxer. A fighter...
...Boston last week, when the curtain rolled up on 1948's baseball season, a giant of a man (6 ft. 4½ in.) limped out to pitch for the Philadelphia A's. On his left leg Leland Victor Brissie, 23, wore two socks and a plastic shin guard. He was not only a rookie but a southpaw to boot, and Plate-Umpire Cal Hubbard got set for a flurry of wild pitching. But the rookie's "live" fast ball cut the plate and his curve snapped over for strikes. Red Sox sluggers got only two hits...
...leading a squad in the mountains above Florence, Italy. It had taken 23 operations and 40 blood transfusions to put Brissie on his feet; for a minute it looked as if Williams' smash had undone everything. But after a five-minute rest, Brissie was ready to pitch again...
...novices neglect. Even when a duffer does buy one, he usually gets the wrong kind. He should choose one with a wide flange on the sole of the club. It makes one of golf's toughest shots (coming out of traps and bunkers) easy. It also helps make pitch shots simple...
Either Roy Meears or Jim Gabler will pitch for the Freshmen today at Andover, where Warren Berg's nine tackle what is probably the strongest prep school squad in the area...