Word: pitcher
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...medical community. Ambulance workers in several cities have refused to transport desperately ill patients to hospitals. Hospital orderlies are reluctant to clean their rooms. Nurses are wary. When a friend visiting an AIDS patient in a Los Angeles hospital stepped out into the corridor to fill a water pitcher for him, he was shouted at by a nurse. "That pitcher should never leave that damn room!" she screamed. "How dare you jeopardize...
Until last year, when New York Yankees Pitcher Waite ("Schoolboy") Hoyt died grudgingly at 84, he served Rose as a Cobb historian and utility Merlin. Having been a pallbearer for Babe Ruth, Hoyt was a certified carrier of legends. In retelling tales of Cobb, Rose animatedly acts them out, clapping the dirt off his thighs just so, snatching up particles of outfield grass in the pristine signal that Player-Manager Cobb had for a knockdown pitch...
...It’s a shame he didn’t stay to play through his college career here,” sophomore Drew Casey, Harvard’s current backup catcher, told me. “He would have been the most feared pitcher in college baseball, but I understand that he had some stuff he needed to get straight...
Freshman Shelly Madick, the reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Week and co-Pitcher of the Week, came on in relief of McAteer and could not keep pace with Daly. Sabotaged in part by her defense, Madick allowed four runs (two earned) in three innings of work and took the loss, falling to 5-4 on the season...
Take baseball. Didn't they ruin it when they started using designated hitters instead of letting the pitcher strike out for himself? Didn't they ruin the game when they put in lights and started playing at night? Or when they expanded the major leagues from 16 teams to 26? Or the schedule from 154 games to 162? (Did Roger Maris break Babe Ruth's record of 60 home runs by hitting 61--but in eight extra games?) Babe Ruth--bah! Some truly venerable curmudgeons share Ring Lardner's view that they really ruined the game when they introduced...