Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pitch. As usual, in the familiar one-two punch of Soviet diplomacy, threats were accompanied by the offer of "peace." Khrushchev snarled a warning at Turkey (see below), tossed a few ominous remarks in the direction of West Germany ("Adenauer will not be able to start things the way Hitler did''), growled at the U.S. itself: "If a war should break out . . . socialism will live on while capitalism will not remain...
...National League opponents insisted-and still do-that he uses the outlawed spitball. "He breaks every rule in the book,'' maintains Cincinnati Manager Birdie Tebbetts. "The umpires tell me it doesn't matter as long as he goes to the rosin bag before making a pitch. The rosin bag has become his father confessor. It absolves him of all sin." As a bench jockey, Burdette has been challenged to fisticuffs by Jackie Robinson, once even goaded even-tempered Roy Campanella into chasing him with a bat. Off the field the Braves got to know...
Warren Spahn's illness probably will force Manager Fred Haney to call on Lew Burdette, already a two-time winner, to pitch for the Braves. The fidgety right-hander who shut out the Yankees 1-0 Monday at Milwaukee will be working with only two days rest...
...brand-new screwball that he calls a sinker. More important, he is still improving the impressive control that made him the first of this season's 20-game winners and made him one of the six baseball pitchers to win 20 games eight times or more. The pitches he throws from his high-kicking windup are almost always on target. "My Dad had a theory about pitching," says Spahn. "He used to say that if you learned to throw properly, you could pitch forever without hurting your...
Leading the turnaway were such longtime Eisenhower champions as the Montgomery Advertiser, which rebuked Ike for provoking a ''new pitch of sectional animosity," and the Nashville Banner, which damned him for turning the South into a "zone of occupation for a replay of Reconstruction." The Ike-minded Dallas News trumpeted that a Southern governor is now "a satrap-on-sufferance, removable or jailable on the order of a carpetbag judge." "CAESARISM," shrilled one of six anti-Eisenhower editorials in a single issue of the Charleston News and Courier...