Word: pitcher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offensive firepower to crack the Top 20 exists in junior forward John Marshall and sophomore forwards Mike Johnson, Peter Richards and Todd Forman, a standout relief pitcher for Alex Nahigian's baseballers in the spring. Richards led the squad in scoring last season with more than 40 goals, with Forman and Johnson rounding out the top three...
...clearing out the gamblers. Without any process at all, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis expelled everyone involved in the Black Sox scandal. His '40s successor, Happy Chandler, gave Brooklyn Dodgers manager Durocher a year's suspension merely for associating with gamblers. In the '60s Bowie Kuhn docked Detroit Tigers pitcher McLain a half-season for making book...
...steel-trap mind is rusty. In a recent interview, Barry's fatigue overwhelmed him. His face sagged, his eyelids drooped. He talked haltingly, stopping often to gaze at the far wall of his cavernous office. He mixed up dates and forgot a name. At one point, a pitcher of ice water in his hand, he poised haltingly over his coffee cup as his face betrayed mounting confusion over the disappearance of his water glass, which he had earlier placed behind him. "It's just like an airport novel," muses a city official. "It's like the poor country...
Denny McLain, the Detroit Tigers pitcher, had a delightful alibi for two mashed toes that cost the 1967 pennant. He said he hurt himself shooing a raccoon away from a garbage can. Whether the raccoon had a Mob connection was a matter of speculation, but McLain was definitely the garbage can. When his bookmaking sideline was uncovered, he blurted, "My biggest crime is stupidity." Actually, it was just the thing at which he was most accomplished...
...view, the clubs lost priceless cohesiveness when they boarded airplanes. For these old-timers, alcohol was the prevailing addiction. Red Sox manager Joe McCarthy hectored his players about the evils of drink and then went on benders himself. Kinder, whom Halberstam considers the American League's best relief pitcher of the time, was usually boiled...