Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes both ways in the New York heat. To do that in these days of two-platoon football-calls for a great deal of desire on the part of the players. Can even such a master of football psychology as Lou Little bring his team up to such a pitch for two straight Saturdays...
...Center of the Stage ends indecisively, without the harsh clash that the opposition of Carlotta and David calls for. But while the book is written in too muted a pitch, it is clearly a serious effort to describe, and prescribe for, the Carlottas of this world. Novelist Sykes has an enviable gift for writing cultivated dialogue and intelligent reflection; his book, even in its limp spots, reveals the controlling presence of a grown-up mind...
...another American League development, Bobby Shantz, 24-game winner for the Philadelphia A's, suffered a broken wrist when he was hit on the wrist by a ball pitched by the Washington Senator's Walt Masterson. The little left-hander who was scheduled to pitch against the Yankees on Sunday will be lost for the rest of the season...
Yankee manager Casey Stengel will go with either Johnny Sain or Bob Kuzava and Vic Raschi in today's doubleheader with the Red Sox at Fenway Park. New York mainstay Allie Reynolds will pitch tomorrow, and then again Sunday, with Raschi probably pitching against the A's on Saturday...
Rocky insists he enjoys "99% of the fight game," and likes the actual fighting best of all. "You work up to the fight," he explains gently, "and make the fight your pitch. Of course when you're in there you want to get it over with as quick as possible . . . anything can happen in the ring. You like beating the other guy. You like the way people treat you afterwards ... A guy gets accepted...