Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Giant fans were able to move back to the present again. Their favorites were in the first division, and they had found a reasonable 1950 counterpart to Hubbell in Righthander Sal Maglie, a sturdy, blue-jowled pitcher who proved this year that he could throw with the best of them. He was even making threatening gestures at Hubbell's National League record of 43⅓-scoreless innings...
...Manhattan, Giant Pitcher Sal Maglie, his fourth consecutive shutout (over Brooklyn, 2-0), to tie a National League record...
...unit's heroes was a Japanese-American corporal named Hideo Hashimoto, who had spent World War II in a Japanese internment camp in the U.S. Hashimoto, a right-handed pitcher for his regimental baseball team, had crept out on the edge of the ridge, hurled grenade after grenade with deadly accuracy at the advancing Reds. In one attack, Hashimoto was throwing grenades at Red troops less than 20 yards away. When he ran out of grenades, Hashimoto pitched rocks...
...pennant was the wonder of the season. Injuries had kept Old Reliable Tommy Henrich (.287 last year) out of the regular line-up most of the season. Joe DiMaggio (hitting .285) was winning games when they counted, but he had been off form all through midseason. Relief Pitcher Joe Page (3 won, 5 lost) was far behind his 1949 performance...
...Philadelphia, Pitcher Bob Lemon of Cleveland became the majors' first 20-game winner. His relief stint stopped the Philadelphia Athletics, 5-4, brought his team into a second-place tie with the New York Yankees, 1½ games behind Detroit. Lemon's record...