Word: pitcher
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...power-forward—who moonlights as a varsity pitcher during baseball season—hit three crucial three-pointers against a physical zone defense in the final minutes of the first half to give Harvard a 44-39 lead going into the intermission...
...know how much I was going to play, so it was kind of shocking,” Lin said. “But I think everyone here is ready to play whenever their number gets called.” After playing sparingly last year, Unger, who is also a pitcher on the Crimson baseball team, logged twenty-five minutes and went four of five from the floor. Three of those field goals were lay ups in the second half and included one of the most crucial baskets of the game. Nursing a 69-66 lead with 1:05 left...
DIED. Johnny Sain, 89, right-handed pitcher for the Boston Braves immortalized in a rhyme turned national catchphrase; in Downers Grove, Ill. Sain, the last pitcher to face Babe Ruth, and Braves left-hander Warren Spahn were deemed so crucial to the team's successful campaign for the 1948 National League pennant that a lyric was born: "Spahn and Sain, pray for rain." Sain later became a visionary teacher, stressing the mental side of pitching and inspiring accolades from players like Jim Bouton, who dubbed him "the greatest pitching coach who ever lived...
...British weekly New Scientist has touched on this, exploring what is known as nominative determinism--the common case of people whose names echo their jobs. There is the director of penal reform Frances Crook, the marine biologist Steven Haddock. American culture has been rife with such synchronicity--pitcher Rollie Fingers, Senator George McGovern. "Are these whimsicalities of chance," Carl Jung once asked, "or the suggestive effects of the name...
DIED. Joe Niekro, 61, right-handed pitcher whose deadly knuckleball helped him to a career 221 wins in 22 seasons and who, with his knuckleball-hurling brother Phil, famously won more games than any other pair of brothers in major league baseball history; of a brain aneurysm; in Tampa, Fla. In 1976 the longtime Houston Astro hit his only career home run--against Phil, then pitching for the Atlanta Braves...