Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plastered in Paris. Guffaws will grow among those people who pronounce it "moom pitcher," who view this bad piece about a kleptomaniac ex-soldier at the American Legion convention in Paris. The star is Sammy Cohen, cast as Samuel Nosenbloom...
Christy Mathewson Jr., son of the late famed baseball pitcher who had a million friends and only one enemy (tuberculosis), was appointed last week a cadet in the U. S. Army air service. He had been an engineer in the General Electric Co. and had completed a course in commercial aviation at the Schenectady, N. Y., airport...
Warming Up; but the ill-timed crack of a bat against a baseball, the ear-splitting yawp of the crowd, the squawk of an offstage soprano are in the air, now and then. The story purports to tell how the Yankees won the World Series when a bush-league pitcher (Richard Dix) peered into the grandstand, saw his girl (Jean Arthur) signal that she would marry him. Then he fanned the opposition, including his dastardly rival. So full of hebetude is the film that baseball fans squirmed, bit thumbs, made unpleasant faces...
...standings of the clubs, could not see much chance that the tradition would be upset. With the taste for theories and computations common to all baseball fans, they tabulated the qualifications of the other clubs in the National League. They considered the Giants, able and expensive, but needing a pitcher, or three pitchers, since they had one-Benton. They considered Brooklyn, strong in the box, ragged afield, indifferent at bat; Chicago, lacking an infield of major league quality; Cincinnati, slipped from its lead because of injuries to valuable pitchers; Pittsburgh with no one in the box except "Spitballer" Grimes; Boston...
...check. F. B. Cutts '28, who has always pitched his best ball against Yale in a relief role, should be able to put to good advantage the large amount of experience he has gained this seasons if he is called upon this afternoon. Howard Whitmore '29, is a third pitcher who deserves to rank with Barbee and Cutts...