Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...error, the varsity countered without the benefit of a hit. Lead-off man Dick Hoffman, who has been on base at least three times every game, opened the Crimson half of the first with a walk. He advanced to second on an infield out, and scored on a wild pitch...
Coach Norm Shepard had planned to pitch his ace, Andy Ward, against the Jumbos yesterday, but the rain changed his plan. "I want to use Ward in the Army game Friday," Shepard explained. The game at Army will be the opener of the varsity's Eastern Intercollegiate League schedule...
...Crimson scored again in the third when Matt Botsford singled to center, went to second on a wild pitch and came home on Hoffman's single to right. The final run came in the next inning against relief pitcher Gif Weber when Botsford doubled home Dick Fisher...
...Rice was asked to pick Collier's All-America football teams. After 50 years of picking them Rice in his autobiography named not only his alltime best college footballers but the best baseball pitchers. Though Dizzy Dean is not on the list ("He didn't pitch long enough"), he obviously rated a favored spot in Rice's heart. After reeling off a flock of other peoples' stories about Dean, Granny tells of the time he sat on the train with Diz and his brother Paul the season the two Ozark hog callers won 49 games...
...thought was the best good of the cause for which they were fighting, of their country, well, then, let us take and lay the thing out dispassionately so that we, in our turn, may profit from their mistakes." With talk about a new four-power conference reaching a high pitch, the opportunity to profit seemed to be great...