Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshmen playing fall baseball, B. L. Elkins '29, R. E. Durkee '29, and G. P. Davis '29 are fancied most by Coach Davidson for his Freshman nine next spring. Elkins, former St. Mark's captain, seems to have one of the infield berths cinched. Davis, a pitcher, is a former Choate athlete, and promises to win a position on Coach Davidson's corps of hurlers. The heavy hitting of Durkee won for him the position of clean-up batter on one of the fall teams. The former Greenfield High player is expected to be a strong competitor for the first...
Fifth Game. Aldridge, winning pitcher of the second game, faced Coveleskie, whom he had previously beaten. The fourth inning was noteworthy because the by-this-time popular "Joey" Harris hit a homerun-his third of the series. With the score 2 to 2 in the seventh inning, Moore, young Pittsburgh second baseman, drew a base on balls. Carey singled. Cuyler singled. "Sarah" Barnhart singled. Two runs had scored, and Washington advocates were crying: "Cheese!" and "Bummer!" at Coveleskie. The Polish pitcher (who won three World Series games in 1920 when he pitched for Cleveland against Brooklyn) trod slowly with downcast...
Certainly no baseball pitcher, perhaps no player in any game, had a triumph equal to Mathewson's in the famed World Series of 1905. Plank, the mainstay of the Athletics, was a fine pitcher, heady and fast, but he could be scored on, Mathewson could not. There were other men with the Giants besides Mathewson; occasionally they came up to bat; they did not have much else to do. While the enormous crowds shouted themselves into a frenzy, and small boys and statesmen muttered his name in their sleep-a name heard round far more of the world than...
...hour. After that, even if only a little, and although pushed rather by ill-luck than any failure in himself, he began to slip. In 1908 he pitched and lost the celebrated 12-inning play-off game against the Cubs which decided the National League pennant. Mordecai Brown-the pitcher with the pirate's name-worsted him in that struggle, "the hardest game," Mathewson said, "of my life." In 1914 he injured his right shoulder. Still, with speed impaired, he could win games with his curves, his strategy, his matchless fadeaway. For a while, he tried without much success...
Retired Southpaw Eddie Plank, living on memories and planked steak in Gettysburg, thought of a long word. "Baseball has lost its mightiest pitcher," said...