Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team seems to present relatively few problems. One of the brightest recent developments has been the long-range clouting of Ben Akillian, last year's clean-up hitter and left fielder. Captain Charley Wash also has been hitting a long ball and looking "very, very good" as a pitcher, according to McInnis...
...lacrosse team taking a five-game trip with only one goalie is like a baseball squad starting the season with a solitary pitcher. But that's only part of Munro's problem. No complainer, Munro still shakes his head a bit dazedly when considering the other obstacles between now and a repeat championship: although the first game is Monday, the team was unable to start full-scale scrimmages until two days...
Spring turnout for the varsity baseball team at Princeton included Thomas E. Dewey Jr., 19 (pitcher), and the pollster's boy, George H. Gallup Jr., 21 (catcher). In Manhattan, James W. Symington, 24, son of the retired RFC head and a law student at Columbia University, picked up a contract to sing in the Carnaval Room of the Sherry-Netherland Hotel. Said Tenor Symington: "I'm paying my spring tuition with what I get here." Nicholas Eden, 20, son of Britain's Foreign Secretary, left Oxford and arrived in Ottawa to begin his new job as aide...
...Stengel, artfully juggling 16 players into the lineup, it was another chance to solve his three most pressing problems: 1) a man to replace retired Centerfielder Joe DiMaggio; 2) an infielder to fill the gap when Second Baseman Gerry Coleman goes back to Marine flying duty; 3) another starting pitcher to rotate with his three proven performers, Vic Raschi (21-10), Ed Lopat (21-9), and Allie Reynolds...
...became a fireman late in the season and saved several games, most noteworthy of which was one against Penn, in which he caught the first eight innings, hit a tremendous home run, and prevented a dangerous rally in relief in the ninth. McInnis plans to use Walsh as a pitcher, like Crosby, only in the late innings...