Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Papa Edward Marvin Head, 26, passed around the cigars, strode proudly out to pitch for the first-place Brooklyn Dodgers. It was his first game in two years, and his arm was a bit sore (he was hurt by the recoil of an antitank gun last summer...
...West, speak their lines with feeling and almost excessive fervor. Ted Allegretti is bombastie in the role of Mio, the son of a man mistakenly executed for murder by a bigoted, insecure society. Mio's overly passionate declamations, often too long sustained, hold audience tension at too high a pitch, causing the play to lose effectiveness in the second and third acts. Kay Casale is quite satisfactory as a restrained Miriamne...
...first eight innings at Quonset Joe Byrnes, pitching for the victors, held the Crimson to two hits, both singles, and allowed only two men to get as far as third base. In the ninth with two out he hit Bill Ayres with a pitched ball, and Saul Mariaschin promptly singled to left, putting Crimson runners on first and second. A wild pitch and a passed ball scored two runs...
...Lyons, fresh out of the Marines, is back in the line-up at 45. The first Sunday of the season, old Ted Lyons expects to crank up his ancient arm and fire his pet pitch at the St. Louis Browns. For him, and for many another big leaguer, the last three years didn't happen...
...first, it was as awkward as a righthander trying to pitch lefthanded. The trick was to thump the board hard enough with his 135 lbs. to get up high in the air. His weak leg limited him to an hour and a half's practice a day; he used to practice three hours...