Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Yankees-among ball clubs the royalty and far-out winners of the 1958 American League pennant-faced up scornfully one afternoon last week to aging (35) Hoyt Wilhelm, knuckleball pitcher for the seventh-place Baltimore Orioles and long since cast off by the Giants, -Cardinals and Indians. Wilhelm, who had won only two games all season, thereupon pitched to just 28 batters and shut out the Yanks in a 1-o no-hitter...
...field the Yanks were also in trouble. Pitcher Ryne Duren and Coach Ralph Houk brawled at a champagne party celebrating the Yanks' pennant won last week. The squabble was patched up after Duren admitted he had drunk too much, but the management felt obliged to keep a squad of private detectives on the players to make sure they stayed in shape for the World Series. In the ensuing comedy of errors, one gumshoe (he was actually wearing gum-soled shoes) shadowed Star Pitcher Bob Turley for three days and discovered Turley seldom drinks anything stronger than soda...
...Mostly poor kids, many of the Monterrey players worked as bootblacks to supplement the income of their fathers, who work in mills and factories for wages as low as $1.50 a day. But they were fine ballplayers, especially Héctor Epitacio Torres, 12, the skinny (85 Ibs.) star pitcher. Nicknamed Malita (evil little woman) because, like his ex-pitcher father, called La Mala, Héctor's stuff is sneaky quick, Righthander Torres had kept Monterrey going most of the season with good control and a fine fast ball...
...crowd booed. But Duren settled down, retired six straight batters over the next two innings, and threw only three more pitches out of the strike zone. By the time he came to bat in the ninth, the Yankees had given him a 6-5 lead. He squinted at Tiger Pitcher Paul Foytack (Duren's depth perception is poor and his left eye is rated 20/200). Foytack threw high and inside. The ball cracked against Duren's helmet. Duren crumpled, blood streaking his cheek. At the hospital, X-rays showed no fracture but a mild concussion that will sideline...
...both charges, explains: "The mound on the field is different-higher-than the warmup slab in the bullpen. I believe in getting adjusted to it by throwing as hard as I can, and sometimes it goes wild." The record shows that the brown-eyed fastballer is no scatter-arm pitcher. He has walked only 24 batters this season, hit only two. Says Detroit's Kaline: "Maybe he was wild once, but when I saw him in spring training he was getting those corners any time he needed to, and I said, 'This...