Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. John L. Perry, 82, grandfather of Walter Perry Johnson, famed Washington baseball pitcher, at Santa Monica, Calif., the day prior to Mr. Johnson's great 4-1 victory over the Pittsburgh nine (see Page 26, SPORT...
...sharing his ideas, caused the first outbreak of hysteria by slamming a home run into the arms of the band behind a temporary fence in right field. Aged Roger Peckinpaugh (discarded by the Yankees as too gouty) came up to bat in the fifth inning, hit one of Pitcher Meadows' (Pittsburgh) offerings, filled bases which already contained Harris and Bluege. Up came Rice. Oof! Strike one. . . . Sugg! Strike two. . . .Pitcher Meadows smiled, wound up to pitch strike three; Rice swung, fans shrieked seeing the ball streak far enough from the plate to bring in Harris and Bluege. Pittsburgh also...
...below). A heavy mist made it hard to follow the ball. In the sixth inning Aldridge (Pittsburgh) hit boyish-faced Bluege behind the ear with a pitched ball. Spectators moaned. Having just commemorated one death, they feared they had witnessed another. Bluege revived, walked off the field. Moist-handed Pitcher Coveleskie, the Polish Spitballer (Washington), did well until the eighth inning when with the score tied, Kiki Cuyler (Pittsburgh) knocked a home run into the convenient right-field fence. Washington retaliated by filling the bases with none out in the ninth. Pitcher Aldridge had reserve and courage enough left...
Third Game was delayed for a day by rain, harassed when it finally began by wind and cold, which chilled President Coolidge and pinched his face. After half a dozen innings of erratic baseball, Manager Harris called his pitcher, Alex Ferguson, out of the game and sent in midget Nemo Leibold to bat for him. Nemo, a lefthander, shuffled and glared until Pitcher Kremer ( Pittsburgh) walked him. Poker-faced Goose Goslin stepped to the plate, swung high, swung low, like a man who would hit at anything. Pittsburgh outfielders spread out. Canny Goslin bunted. Traynor hit a sacrifice...
Fourth Game. The glamor faded a little. No band. Less bunting. More the atmosphere of an ordinary ball game. Johnson, refreshed, allowed only three clean hits, passed only two men (one in the first inning when he was cold and one in the ninth when he was tired). Pitcher Yde (Pittsburgh) gave journalists a chance to make puns about Yde and seek. Goose Goslin hit him for a home run, his second in two days; so did Joe Harris. Bucky Harris, called out after a slide to the plate in the seventh inning, screamed like a terrified horse. Umpire Moriarity...