Word: pitcher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Luis Tiant, former pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, signed a two-year contract with the New York Yankees yesterday...
Tiant, 38, entered the free-agent draft when the Red Sox management refused to offer him anything more than a one-year contract, because of his age. The herky-jerky motioned pitcher was not selected until the eighth round and by only one team--the Yanks...
...House show is absurd and almost menacing--sort of like Chase Manhattan raising the prime lending rate to 15 per cent overnight. And the schedule, which calls for two shows on one night for each of the three-week run, is almost as bad as asking a pitcher to start both ends of a doubleheader. The show runs a whopping two hours and forty-five minutes, and asking any cast to do that twice in a night is pushing matters...
Despite the complications, women have served, in some manner, with the U.S. armed forces from the earliest days of the Republic. Molly Pitcher, who was said to have snatched up and continued firing her disabled husband's musket during the Battle of Monmouth, was a legendary heroine of the Revolution. Some 350,000 of the 16 million armed forces mobilized during World War II were women. They served as airplane mechanics, pilots ferrying bombers, parachute riggers and gunnery instructors, as well as in the more "traditional" roles of nursing and administration. In 1948, however, the Women's Armed...
...fourth game was a searing drama of pitcher vs. hitter, mano a mano. Bob Welch came into a 3-3 game in the eighth inning and once again blew heat past the big Yankee bats. Six New Yorkers went down in order...