Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...virtually impossible, this early in the season, to be able to draw any accurate conclusions as to the relative abilities of the candidates. Only one of last year's "H" men is on the pitching staff, Howard Whitmore '29. R. R. Ketchum '29 is another pitcher from last year's University team. W. H. MacHale '31, star twirler on last year's Freshman team is also among the candidates. One of the most promising of the catchers is T. W. Gilligan '31 who was ineligible to play on his Freshman nine. S. L. Batchelder...
...Freshman squad, Charles Devens '32 and Reginald Fincke '32, the first string battery on the Groton School team and F. O. White '32, pitcher on the Country Day School team, are the most prominent candidates. W. B. Wood '32, who is now on the Freshman Hockey sextet, is expected to be a leading contender for the catcher's position...
...development of A. G. Spalding & Bros, originally coincided with the de-velopment of baseball. In more recent years it has branched out to parallel increased U. S. interest in track, football, basketball, tennis, golf. The company was founded in 1876, the year that Mr. Spalding was pitcher and manager of the old Chicago team for which "Pop" Anson and Evangelist Billy Sunday played. It was Spalding's Chicago team which first appeared in regulation baseball uniforms. It was Spalding's company which standardized early baseballs and developed the modern baseball bat with the pronounced bulge in its business...
...viewpoint of the spectator, from whose grandstand Mr. Heydler took one look at the problem. Half the nervous thrill of baseball comes when "the weak end of the order" comes to bat in a rally two runners on base, two out, the score in a ticklish position, and the pitcher up. How many in the bleachers would substitute invariably for the trembling of the game in the chances of a weak hitter or a pinch-hitter entering cold, the placid content in the assurance that Casey, mighty Casey, or someone nearly as mighty, is advancing...
...step toward specialization and toward a privilege for pitcher and hitter alike will not find favor, it is likely, with the majority of baseball...