Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...style of the victory was typically Ivy League, and marked another classic showdown between Harvard and a Dartmouth team that had reached an emotional pitch matched only by the frenzied Hanover student body...
...walled single-story Moslem quarters, where forage is stored on the roofs, to rows of new brick apartment buildings on the dry river beds outside the city. Camels still graze in sight of the new air terminal. Smoke from a cement plant floats across grazing lands where Kazakh cowboys pitch their tents of yak felt. (Visiting dignitaries like Schlesinger are served yak-butter tea and mare's fermented milk...
Yankee first baseman Chris Chambliss slugged the first pitch thrown by Kansas City speedballer Mark Littell in the bottom of the ninth over the right-center fence in refurbished Yankee Stadium last night, breaking up a 6-6 tie and catapulting the Bronx Bombers to their first American League penant since...
...REDS LEAD IT, 5-4, in the ninth. Jay Johnstone's at third with one gone, he's taking a long lead. Schmidty's got a 3-2 count on him. He'll be looking closely at this one. The pitch. It's a long fly ball to Rose in right, that ought to score a run. Johnstone tags. Ooops, he better hurry. Ooh, and he's out at the plate." That's By Saam, the voice of the Phils for several decades describing another crucial loss in the tail end of the disastrous '73 season...
...because he was cheering for a no-hitter while I wanted Johnny Klippstein to break it up with two out in the ninth.) The highlight of that game was Richie Allen's--yes, Richie then--leadoff walk in the seventh inning. He was picked-off on the next pitch. Those were the days when we felt a right to boo. But sometimes we over-extended that right: after hitting three home runs in one night Allen was jeered for striking out in his fourth appearance...