Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...phony. Leo's just putting on a big act, but then, ya can't tell . . . maybe he's in love." Like a breath of spring, a faint note of optimism crept in; somebody mentioned that old Hughie Casey had concocted a new and very secret pitch. "Gonna win twenty games, he says." But it was just a breath and it died on the next remark: "What ya been smokin', bud, mario-wanna...
While regular umpires will arbitrate baseball games, softballers must provide their own martyrs to the cause from non-playing members, and in addition must carry on without the benefit of stolen bases, bunts, or leads off base before the pitch reaches the batter. Seven innings will suffice in both hard and softball, while the usual four and a half or five frames will constitute an official game...
Kansas City high-school girls were wearing bracelets on their ankles, four-in-hand ties with their blouses. At one high school, girls had to be going steady with a boy to be in the social swim, but also had to give them "the pitch" and get a new one every few weeks because it was agreed that boys were terrible...
...portraiture, is its only reward. At 51, big, friendly Russell Lord edits The Land, a sound agricultural quarterly, at his Maryland farm, runs a correspondence section for the Country Gentleman. The Wallaces wasn't "authorized," but Henry A. and the rest of the family were always ready to pitch in and help. Wallace read every chapter (but the last) as Lord finished it, pretended not to be interested. Says Lord: "Maybe he wasn't, but each chapter came back with an awful lot of commas. Henry sure loves commas...
...long legs spread far apart, Hartung waited menacingly. The first pitch was down the groove. With a huge stride and a loose-jointed lurch, he swung-and connected. The ball arched up and disappeared over a 30-foot fence, 370 feet away...