Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is no clear-cut distinction between the two squads. This is making for stronger teams and is giving more men a chance to play. Except for Red Connolly and Ira Godin, any of Dolph Samborski's pitchers might take the mound for the Jayvees. Barry Turner will probably pitch some Jayvee games although pitching is not one of Harper's chief worries at the moment...
After six weeks of reading about every deep breath and every bad pitch their baseball heroes had taken, the fans settled down to watch the real thing. This week the season was on. Even the Red Sox's taciturn Manager Joe McCarthy (TIME, April 5) broke silence: "The Yankees? Oh, yes, the Yankees. Well, I'll tell you. I believe this Cleveland club will be up there. They've got Feller, y'know." Another team to watch was the pitcher-rich Detroit Tigers...
Lennie Lunder's cousin pitches for Colby. Yesterday afternoon he came in to relieve in the seventh inning with the bases leaded and got Lennie to fly out. But in the tenth, with a Crimson runner perched on second, Lunder spoiled the family act by slamming a fat one-one pitch into left to win the game...
Meanwhile, Dummer pitcher Fritz Freeman set the Crimson down with three hits while fanning 12. A wild pitch paved the way for the Freshmen's only run off the talented left-hander...
...visitors picked up their run in the seventh when Ed Smith dropped a blooper double into right, went to third on a wild pitch, and scored on Ernie Wohler's sacrifice. Catcher Sherrill Houston and Meears gleaned the two other Crimson safeties, Houston's on a single to center in the sixth and Meears' on a broken bat hit to right in the eighth...