Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson picked up an insurance run in the fourth when Bob Hastings doubled to left and then scored on a wild pitch and passed ball. The team's final run came in the eighth. Matt Botsford singled to center and reached third when Bill Chauncey singled to right. Botsford scored on the catcher's second throwing error...
...rookie Al came to bat 28 times, hit a commendable .250. Even such rival sluggers as the Red Sox's Ted Williams spotted his promise and helped him polish up his stickwork. "Ted showed me how to bend my back a little and go down after a low pitch," Al remembers now. "Then he told me something else which I think helped me even more. He told me how to keep in condition during the off season, by swinging heavy bats and keeping a rubber ball in my pocket to exercise my grip...
...junior varsity baseball team will meet the First Naval District nine in North Boston at 4 p.m. today. Bill Congleton will probably pitch for the Crimson, and Bing Crosby will catch. The jayvees have won one game and lost one thus...
...Crimson scored first yesterday when Butters smashed an outside pitch for a 820-foot home run in the second inning. It was his fourth of the season. But Northeastern came back with a run in their half when Angelo Toylas tripled and scored on a sacrifice...
...windy "Meeting of the Joyce Society" is a perfect Eden of recitation: James Joyce reads the closing pages of Anna Livia Plurabelle from Finnegans Wake. Though the recording was made long before the days of hifi. Joyce's voice is so subtle, takes cadence and grades pitch with such finesse, that only a good record player can keep within an Irish mile...