Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lawrence ("Yogi") Berra, the New York Yankees' hard-hitting (27 homers) catcher, the Baseball Writers' poll as most valuable American League player of the year. In close second place: St. Louis Pitcher Ned Carver, who won 20 games for the hapless Browns. ¶ Colonel Humberto Mariles of the Mexican Army equestrian team, five of nine jumping contests, a record individual performance, at the National Horse Show; in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. ¶Stanford University's football team, an inside track to the Rose Bowl by upsetting the University of Southern California with three fourth-quarter...
Married. Ralph Branca, 25, Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher, who last month threw the home-run ball that gave the Giants the National League pennant; and Ann Mulvey, 20, daughter of James A. Mulvey, one-fourth owner of the Dodgers; in Brooklyn...
...Miller, a fair runner and one passer, but totally unreceptive. Another is the more experienced Gone Howard, who is a good ball-handler but throws what must be intercollegiate football's most wobbly pass. The third senior Dick Brown, is neither so deceptive as Howard nor so accurate a pitcher as Miller...
...someone called up to ask how much the average-sized hippopotamus weighed," says Mrs. Beatrice Pitcher, head of the Information Office. And this is only one of the strange requests she gets. Other questioners want answers to newspaper contests, types of rocks, and bugs...
...Yankees were elaborately unruffled. Reynolds deliberately went through the ritual of the pitcher-glaring at the man on second, tucking his chin down as if in thought. Suddenly, there was a swelling roar from the crowd. There on the base path Irvin was digging for the plate. In that paralyzed instant, the startled Reynolds looked up. Irvin was ten steps from home. Reynolds drew back his arm (eight steps) and threw hastily to Yogi Berra (six steps) and Irvin hurtled into his slide. Berra stretched for the high throw, and Irvin was across. With a roar of delight, the crowd...