Word: pitcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last time big (220-lb.) Pitcher Carl DeRose had started a game for the Kansas City Blues, he could hardly sleep at night after the game for the pain in his arm. The Blues, a Yankee farm team, considered 24-year-old DeRose one of their most promising players, so they sent him off to the Yankees' trainer. He was advised to lay off for three weeks. Last week, exactly three weeks to the day, DeRose started against Minneapolis. By the third inning, his right arm was throbbing badly...
Manager Billy Meyer suggested calling for a relief pitcher, but DeRose shook his head and kept going. He threw exactly 93 pitches and did not allow a man to reach first base. It was the first perfect game in the history of the American Association, and the first in baseball's upper layers since Charley Robertson pitched a perfect game for the Chicago White...
Included in the barrage layed down by the Adams-Dunster batters, were two long triples. Pitcher Crotty dropped one into right center field with two on in the third but a powerful heave cut him down trying to stretch it into a home...
Only men to hit safely for the Eliot Club were Gilman, who doubled in the first but was picked off by pitcher Harrison, and Farmer in the seventh, who also reached second by means of a steal but died there as Harrison got a strike out, tossed a grounder to third for a force, and compelled a third batter to pop up to end the game...
...Four days later, Blackwell had another no-hitter in his grasp. Then with one out in the ninth, Brooklyn's pesky Eddie Stanky bounced a single through the pitcher...