Word: pitcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before Samborski's forces entertain any championship notions, however, they must first cope with a formidable Yale pitcher, Frank Quinn, who has yet to be defeated in league competition. Quinn, a right-hander, has won four Ivy League games, and possesses a blasing fast ball. His pitching rival today will be Jack Wallace, whose league record is four wins and a single defeat...
...first time 17-year-old Bob Hansen stepped into the pitcher's box for his Central Valley (N.Y.) high-school team this season, the bases were loaded. He calmly struck out the next three men. Then he pitched two no-hit, no-run games and struck out 34 batters in the process. They were his 26th and 27th victories in a row. So a nice man from the Chicago Cubs breezed into Bob's home town, the sleepy little Hudson River hamlet of Harriman, just ahead of a nice man from the New York Yankees...
...also made a point of chinning with political hopefuls and has-beens as he went along. He writes of them vividly. He found New York's Governor Dewey "as devoid of charm as a rivet . . . able, dramatic . . . a man who will never try to steal second unless the pitcher breaks his leg." Taft is an amalgam of "brain power . . . sincerity . . . majestic wrongheadedness . . . Brobdingnagian bad judgments." Gunther on Bricker: "Intellectually he is like interstellar space-a vast vacuum occasionally crossed by homeless, wandering clichés." Gunther finds U.S. public life full of "poltroons, chiselers, parvenus . . . politicians bloated with intellectual...
Rowe obligingly rolled it in from the pitcher's box on the ground. By the time it reached home plate, if not before, it was dry. Growled Ott: "Sliders and sinkers revolve-you can't see the stitches on the seams as they come to the plate like you can with a spitter." Other pitchers-Rip Sewell, Fred Ostermueller, Claude Passeau-have been unofficially accused of using "spit-sweat" balls in pinches. They deny it, and so does Schoolboy Rowe...
...There is only one way to stop it," suggested one Philadelphia pitcher. "Make the spit ball legal again." Said Schoolboy Rowe with a straight face: "Oh, that's a dirty habit...