Word: pitcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked on glumly as Bob Feller got his lumps. The New York Yankees clubbed him for seven runs in the first inning. In the press box somebody cracked that the catcher was throwing the ball back harder than Feller was throwing it in. Was the Cleveland Indians' great pitcher washed up at 30? As he plodded off to the shower, with the Yankees still at bat, Bob Feller was the droop-shouldered picture of discouragement...
Coach Stuffy McInnis' pitching choice for the contest will be lefthander Barry Turner, who last pitched Saturday against Tufts, and ultimately was the winning pitcher. The erratic Turner will be given bullpen support by fireballer Ralph Hymans and Crimson mound ace Ira Godin...
...Last week, indicted for manslaughter, young Tom Doxsee came to trial at Plymouth, 48 miles from Dartmouth. The prosecutor, Grafton County Solicitor Robert Jones, was a Dartmouth graduate. So was one of Doxsee's lawyers, Charles Tesreau, son of the late Jeff Tesreau, onetime Dartmouth baseball coach and pitcher for the New York Giants...
Yankee Spark. Henrich really took over as the Yankees' leader two weeks after the opening. It was a tight moment, and Pitcher Joe Page had been summoned from the bullpen to cool off the aroused Boston Red Sox. As Page began the long trek to the mound, Henrich stepped up to him and said: "You hold it and I'll win it." Page did his part. Two innings later, with the Yanks trailing, 3-2, Henrich picked up a bat and smashed a home run into the rightfield seats, with one man on base, to win the game...
...mate. Douglas, matching his stage performance in "Born Yesterday" and his other movie appearance in "A Letter to Three Wives," is the tobacco-chewing, hardheaded, soft-hearted, Ring Lardner ball player who wisecracks at the umpire during business hours and spends the rest of the day keeping his irascible pitcher in tow. One of the picture's funniest scenes comes when he uses some of the magic lotion for hair tonic and finds that he can't smooth his hair with a wooden hair brush...