Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Stewart, coach of the Second University baseball team last spring has been signed as head coach of the Williams nine for the coming season. Stewart, a former major league pitcher, succeeds Jack Coombs another old major league player...
...Braves, will be in charge of the battery men for his second successive year. He was coach during the fall practice session and will continue the work he started then. Mitchell was also head coach of the baseball team in 1916 when he developed a substitute infielder into a pitcher who was good enough to defeat Yale in the first game he had ever pitched. Coach Mitchell will have excellent material to work with this year with the return of Philip Spalding '25, J. E. Toulmin '25 and E. L. Gehrke ocC., all letter men. In addition several of last...
...over without serious attention. Not so a certain old man who sits all day under a green celluloid visor, peering at papers in the editorial rooms of a certain metropolitan daily. His clothes are shabby; he is unable to play any musical instrument; if in a ball game, the pitcher should "walk" him, it would take long for him to get to first base; but he is paid money, this dilapidated curmudgeon, for one distinguishing asset-the length of his nose. He smells news as a hound smells an opossum. He drew a circle in red crayon around the advertisement...
...letters, replied to many. A Massachusetts mother wrote: "I used to be at my wits' end trying to get my husband and my boys and girls up in the morning." A boy of ten wanted to know if the exercises would guarantee his becoming as good a baseball pitcher as able Walter Johnson of the Washington Americans (TIME, Sept. 22 et seq.). "The president of one of the largest public utility corporations in the country"* thanked Mr. Bagley for having reduced his weight ten pounds. "One of those bobbed-haired stenographers" said she used...
...committee of newspaper men last week voted Arthur Vance, pitcher on the Brooklyn "Dodgers," "most valuable to his team" of all players in the National Baseball League. In the American League, Pitcher Johnson of Washington was so voted (TIME, Sept...