Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only diehard Giant fans still think there is much hope of catching the Dodgers, but last week, in a do-or-die series, the Giants served notice that they cannot be counted out quite yet. In the first game the Giants finally beat Brooklyn Pitcher Preacher Roe (after he had won ten straight), 4-0. The Dodgers exploded in the second, 10-4. In the rubber game, Giant Outfielder Monte Irvin drove in four runs with two homers, beat the Dodgers almost singlehanded...
...Cleveland Pitcher Bob Feller, a no-hit game (his third in 13 years), over the Detroit Tigers, 2-1, after Detroit spoiled a shut-out by scoring on a combination of two errors, a stolen base and a long fly ball; in Cleveland...
...princely salaries it paid its staff: a fat 50 words of variegated news arrived from America each night. Once Jim was handed a flimsy containing the line, "Christy Mathewson died Saranac," and from memory and by Ouija board wrote a column obituary on the great New York Giants pitcher...
...Blows thrown with almost the same motion as that used by a softball pitcher. More spectacular-looking than the shorter, deadlier uppercut, the bolo is telegraphed by its windup, hence is not normally effective as a knockout punch...
...Crimson pitcher Bob Ward was totally without control in the nightmarish first inning, and his successor, John Donelan, was also hard pressed. The Elis ran up eight runs on four hits in the top half of the first, and never slowed down...