Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the years the game has evolved into one of the most unusual contests in American sporting annals: one team, headed by its president, lines up in a row at home plate while the other publication, with its president in the pitcher's box, takes the field. The pitcher tosses an empty beer can to his rival executive who swats it with a hunk of wood. At this signal the team at bat races in a wild circuit of the base path while the members of the "fielding" team attempt to tackle and/or trip them. As soon...
...show. In the first ten days, 9,000 dropped in for a look, some to see the art and some chiefly to check up on Painter Meehan's baseball. One visitor was Robin Roberts, the Phillies' ace right-hander and the National League's top pitcher (28 games won) last year. Meehan found him frowning over a painting of himself pouring a pitch toward the plate during a night game, pressed him for an opinion. Pitcher Roberts explained that this was the first time he had ever been "within half a mile" of an art show...
...goods. It was while being fingerprinted during one of these brushes with the law that he got his alias. As a young man, Luchese had lost the index finger on his right hand in an accident. Noticing this, a detective suddenly remembered the Chicago Cubs' famed three-fingered pitcher, Mordecai Brown, and pinned on the new name: "Look who's in now-Three-Finger Brown...
...Pruett, is known more for his family lineage than his running ability. Pruett, the type of running ability. Pruett, the type of runner who needs the blocks, has averaged just under five yards a carry; nevertheless, he is known primarily as the son of the St. Louis Brown pitcher who could strike out Babe Ruth. Six-foot-three-inch Frank Smith will start at right end. A substitute for the veteran Harry Benninghoff at the beginning of the season, Smith took over when the latter was injured and has held the post ever since. Currently the number two Eli receiver...
China. Moving on to Oklahoma City, where the New York Yankees' pitcher, Allie Reynolds, welcomed him, Stevenson, who has been too busy for baseball, bloopered: "I wish I could hit like you." In his speech before a crowd of 75,000 at the state capitol, he briefly defended the Administration's record on China: echoing the State Department's 1949 White Paper on the subject, he presented the familiar argument that China's Nationalist regime could have been saved from the Communists only by sending U.S. soldiers to China...