Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dummer pitcher Paul O'Brien balked with Yardling second baseman Bob German on third to send him trotting home with the tie-breaking run in the ninth. Previously, the freshmen had built up a six run lead in the first two innings, but the Governors tied the game up with three runs in the third and three more in the seventh. First baseman John Maher had three for five hits for the Yardlings, and Joe Crohore had two for five. Palmer, who pitched the last three innings, was the winner...
McInnis has almost the same pitching staff he had last season. Bob Ward, fast balling right hander, should be the ace of the group. If Ward has his control, the Crimson will be tough to beat. Andy (No relation) Ward should also start. Top pitcher on last year's freshman squad, Ward may add right handed depth. But McInnis doesn't know, he's barely seen sophomore Ward outdoors. Pat Groper could also help. Last season he showed good control, pitching a fine game against Tufts. John Arnold, another veteran righthander and John Cooke give McInnis more depth. Another southpaw...
Died. Fred Toney, 63, National League pitcher (1911-23); of a heart attack; in Nashville, Tenn. Tall (6 ft. 4 in.), lumbering Righthander Toney made major-league history in 1917 by pitching a ten-inning no-hitter for the Cincinnati Reds while Chicago Cubs Pitcher Jim Vaughn pitched nine hitless innings, let in the Reds' winning run in the tenth...
...Philadelphia, Pitcher Bobby Shantz, 27, the American League's most valuable player of 1952 (won 24, lost 7), signed a two-year contract calling for over $25,000 a year, highest ever paid to an Athletics pitcher. In Cleveland a day later, fading Fireballer Bob Feller, not so valuable (9-13), signed a one-year contract for a reported...
...Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean, 42, a pitcher who knew no peer (and was the first to admit it) during the rowdy days of the famed St. Louis Cardinal "Gas House Gang" in the '30s. The last pitcher in either league to win 30 games in one season (1934), Ol' Diz also holds the National League strike-out record (17 in one game), wound up his flamboyant career with 150 victories, 83 losses. After his pitching days were cut short by an injury in 1937, Diz turned to sports announcing, enriched the language with such phrases as "slud...