Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...riveter, a sandhog, a bush league pitcher, Regular Army Sergeant, a worker in the steel mills, a miner, a railroad engineer, a hoofer in the three-a-day?where are their stories? Where are the stories of the people without inherited incomes who have neither time, money nor opportunity for the elegant complications of country club life? They themselves are inarticulate? But is anyone more inarticulate artistically than the average bond salesman...
...June 25, 1885, Detroit tried out a pitcher named Casey, but he was not mighty at bat and did not last the season through as a pitcher. A strike out by him would not have shocked the populace...
Third Game. Pitchers Nehf (Giants) and Jones (Yankees) dueled. Fielder Stengel waited until the seventh inning before interpolating his second crucial homerun for the Giants. As he trotted around the bases, Stengel wiggled his fingers at Pitcher Jones. Score: Giants 1, Yankees...
Adolfo Luque, pitcher for the Cincinnati National League Baseball Club: "Arriving in my native Havana, I was showered with flowers and hailed by the populace with shouts of ' Viva Luque...
Lieutenant A. J. ("Al") Williams, formerly pitcher for the New York Giants, won the Pulitzer Race (at St. Louis) in a Curtiss-Navy racer at an average speed of 243.67 miles per hour over the triangular course of 200 miles. Lt. H. J. Brow in a similar machine averaged 241.78 and Lt. L. H. Sanderson of the Marine Corps flying a Navy-Wright plane of 750 horsepower was third with a speed of 230 miles per hour. Of the seven picked entries, the three Navy pilots won the first three places. Not a casualty or even a broken wire marked...