Word: pitcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...league baseball's first no-hit game in nearly 14 months, and for Cincinnati fans, a night to cheer; they have insisted all along that Blackwell was the best up & coming pitcher in the majors. This season, with a second-division team behind him, he has won 11, lost 2. Said he, jubilant, when teammates gathered around after the no-hitter...
William M. "Red" Connolly '48, leading Crimson pitcher until his suspension last April, has been reinstated to Ivy League competition, William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, stated last week at the same time Varsity Coach Dolph Samborski was bemoaning the loss by graduation of five first-string players and his two starting hurlers...
...major-league baseball teams passed the season's one-third mark last week, the leading pitcher was neither Bob Feller, Hal Newhouser, Harry Brecheen nor Ewell Blackwell, nor any of the other established celebrities of the mound. On the figures, the best pitcher was a hooknosed, six-foot left-hander named Warren Spahn; habitat Braves Field, Gaffney Street, Boston...
This week, against Pittsburgh's plummeting Pirates, 26-year-old Pitcher Spahn spun his tenth win, breezing through with six strikeouts. That put him one up on Cincinnati's smart Right-Hander Blackwell, two up on Cleveland's swift Feller, and halfway to every pitcher's goal-a 20-game victory total...
...base on balls or a woman or a colony. This thing has wide applications, which I want you to investigate. See what you can do for our mothers and wives, and for the little ones who may grow up to be even greater than our wonderful sluggers. Wipe the pitcher who passes off the field, send him to the showers, both hot and cold, bean him when he gets to bat, do anything, but don't let him give free bases on balls; it's undermining our culture and our very existence. And it was probably started by the * communists...