Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Life in Brooklyn was tough enough for the Dodgers' fireballing pitcher, Don Newcombe. His good right arm ached all summer long and the doctors could find little wrong; opposition batters were beginning to tag him, and he wound up the 1957 season with a dismal record of eleven victories and twelve defeats. He was almost ready to believe the unkind critics who maintained that he lost his stuff in the clutch. Then things got worse. The Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, and Big Newk (6 ft. 4 in.) began to worry himself witless over the prospect of being forced...
Frightened of planes ever since he saw a crash in 1951, Pitcher Newcombe could not face up to the idea of flapping about the circuit in a flying machine. So he took his troubles to a hypnotist...
...half-hour sessions listening to a suave, persuasive voice tell him that he was not really afraid, that the plane would not really crash. Newk liked that kind of pitch; early last spring a chiropractor pal tried a little amateur hypnotism and temporarily relieved his arm. Perhaps, the pitcher decided, Edelman could trance him out of all the tensions that sweat up his palms and take the hop off his high hard one in the big innings of a big game...
...Chicago White Sox swapped Outfielder Larry Doby, Pitcher Jack Harshman and a player still to be named for the Baltimore Orioles' Infielder Billy Goodman, Pitcher Ray Moore and Outfielder Tito Francona. Then the Sox sent Outfielder Minnie Minoso and Third Baseman Fred Hatfield to Cleveland in return for aging Pitcher Early Wynn and Utility Man Al Smith. In two brisk moves they shuffled off 182 RBIs (Doby, 79; Minoso, 103) and picked up only 87 (Smith, 49; Francona, 38), but they did get a good pitcher in the bargain...
Married. Don Larsen, 28, New York Yankee pitcher and baseball immortal (the only perfect game in World Series history, against the Brooklyn Dodgers last year); and onetime Airline Stewardess Corrine Audrey Bruess, 26; he for the second time, she for the first; in Benson, Minn...