Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baseball team survived an early season hitting slump and went on to win its first Eastern Baseball League title in 29 years as well as defeating Yale 12 to 7. The crucial game was against Dartmouth and the Crimson valuted into first place by belting the Indian's star pitcher Pete Quirk, and winning, 5 to 4. The formula of victory can be found in the varsity's two fine pitchers, Dave Brigham and relief ace Gerry Emmet, a steady catcher in John Davis, and the combined hitting of Frank Saia, Kent Hathaway, Bob Cleary, and Tom Bergantino. No matter...
...Pitcher: Spahn,Milwaukee...
...Pitcher: Turley, New York...
...Slumping in the American League cellar, the demoralized Detroit Tigers still managed to collect a league record. Lumbering Outfielder Gus Zernial stepped to the plate as a pinch hitter in the last of the eighth inning in a game with the Yankees, sighted in on one of Relief Pitcher Ryne Duren's fast balls and belted it into the stands for a home run. It was not enough to win the game (Yanks 5, Tigers 4), but it was Zernial's eighth pinch-hit homer, one more than the previous league mark he had shared with Boston...
...Dark, the aging (35) utility infielder St. Louis got from the Giants in 1956. Rounding out his twelfth season in the majors, Dark went to his fourth team, the Chicago Cubs, in an even trade for Jim Brosnan, a husky (6 ft. 4½ in., 215 lbs.) righthanded pitcher...