Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wednesday pitcher for the Yanks will be Bob Turley. Next hurler for Milwaukee is undecided...
Beating the Yankees would give Spahn, 36, a special pleasure. For beating the New Yorkers would be beating Casey Stengel-the same Casey Stengel who was managing the Boston Braves 15 years ago and was scornfully unimpressed by Spahn's talents. Now the veteran pitcher has a great deal more to show his former manager. He still has his old speedball when he needs it, but he backs it up with a variety of curves and a brand-new screwball that he calls a sinker. More important, he is still improving the impressive control that made him the first...
Braves' pinch hitter Nippy Jones was hit by pitcher Tommy Byrne, and scored the tying run on a double by Johnny Logan. With Logan on base, Matthews then tied the series with his homer into the right-field bleachers...
...YORK, Oct. 3--Lew Burdette, the pitcher the New York Yankees traded away in 1951, tied the World Series up for Milwaukee today by beating his old mates, 4-2, in the second game at Yankee Stadium. Bobby Shantz was the losing pitcher...
Even though he needed help in the seventh inning of a game with the Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Southpaw Warren Spahn got credit for a 9-3 victory, became the first major league pitcher to win 20 games this season. A veteran of 13 years with the Braves, Spahn moves into the record book alongside Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, Grover Alexander and Lefty Grove, all great pitchers who won 20 games or more for eight or more seasons...