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Word: pitch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from this exchange, the Kefauver-Stevenson performance for the week had another highlight: a face-to-face encounter in the Los Banos, Calif. spring festival parade, with Adlai rigged out as a cowboy on a roan horse and Estes silk-suited in a Lincoln convertible. Even so, their general pitch was so routine that Democratic eyes and ears began to wander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Kingmakers on the Make | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

About the only exciting moment of the afternoon came in the home half of the fourth inning, when with one out, John Simourian walked and went to third on a passed ball. With Bob Hastings at bat, Simourian broke with the pitch and stole home standing...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, | Title: Baseball Varsity Trounces Judges, 9-1, Behind Kessler | 5/16/1956 | See Source »

...easy, loafed through a set of practice miles early on the morning of the race. He got to Los Angeles' vast Coliseum ready to go. Bailey was bushed, and, it seemed, past caring. He stared moodily at the crowd, had a tough time working up to racing pitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Man with a Mission | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

With losses only to Brown and Boston University, the Yardling baseball team finishes its season today against Yale at New Haven. On his past record, Byron Johnson will probably pitch, and his batterymate will be Larry McCulley. Captain Levon Kasarjian will start as usual at shortstop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Sports | 5/11/1956 | See Source »

...game. Bing Crosby singled, pinchhitter Ed Felton walked, and Tom Bergantino singled for the Crimson's sixth and last hit to load the bases. Cleary then drove in Crosby with a sacrifice fly. Simourian and Fisher then walked to force a run in and Van Riper out. A wild pitch and an error on Matt Botsford's grounder scored two more, but Fisher was then thrown out at the plate on John Getch's grounder to short...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Green Edges Crimson Nine, 7-6; Varsity Out of EIBL Contention | 5/10/1956 | See Source »

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