Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whenever there are runners on the bases and a righthanded batter steps up," wrote Red Smith in his syndicated sports column, "a sense of impending doom settles upon the multitude. Fear grips the pitcher. Panic stalks the stands. Maybe the batter will pop the ball harmlessly into the stratosmog, but the threat of a shattering home run is always imminent...
Neither background nor training suggests the single-minded operator who led the money-hungry major leagues westward to the California gold fields. Nothing betrays the brash architect of baseball's biggest revolution since a Brooklyn pitcher named "Candy" Cummings fired the first curve and separated the men from the bushers. A Bronx-born Giant fan who seldom bothered to go to a ballpark, Walter O'Malley went to work for the Dodgers as an attorney. "Why, I don't think he even knows what Duke Snider makes," snorts the Dodgers' Vice President and General Manager Emil...
...Tiger team is dominated by returning lettermen, but has been handicapped by bad weather which has kept practice down to a minimum. Princeton has also lost its star hitter. First baseman Carl Belz (brother of the pitcher), who batted .337 on last year's team, injured his ankle about ten days ago and will be out of action this afternoon...
Mike Ippolito of football fame will take over first and batting clean-up for the Tigers, although under normal conditions he's a pitcher. Centerfielder Tom Morris, another carry-over from the gridiron ranks, is likewise one of the Tigers' leading hitters...
...crucial factor in determining the outcome of the game was a sudden reversal of form on the part of the Crimson pitcher, Dave Brigham. The big right-hander had all kinds of trouble in the early innings, and during the fourth he seemed on the verge of being knocked...