Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Byron Johnston will start as pitcher for the Crimson, according to coach John Caulfield. The J.V. squad should hold the edge this afternoon...
...Tech pitcher Frank Henrick was wild in the next frame, and the Crimson scored four runs on one hit to take an 8 to 3 lead. Simourian and Hastings walked and Botsford singled Simourian home. Botsford went to second on a passed ball, and then John Getch walked. A wild pitch scored Hastings. After Walt Stahura flied out, Phil Haughey, who hit the ball hard all day, brought both Botsford and Getch home with a deep sacrifice fly to left...
...confident about the team's offensive power. The first five members of the batting order are leftfielder Keith Costa, second baseman George Harrington, shortstop Leon Kasarjian and the team's two longball hitters, centerfielder Kent Hathaway and first baseman Frank Saia. The rest of the batting order before the pitcher consists of Jim Shue at third, Pete Banks in right field and Dave Fairburn behind the plate...
...season for Lawrence ("Yogi") Berra and Edward ("Whitey") Ford. In return for last summer's superlative performance (30 regular-season home runs and three in the World Series), Catcher Berra, a ten-year veteran, got a $58,000 contract. No catcher has ever equaled Yogi's pay. Pitcher Ford, who just missed out on a 20-game season (19-6), has an 80-28 record for five years with the Yanks and a 4-2 record in World Series play. All this raised Whitey...
Only One Compromise. The Giants got a bargain. Almost 38, Jackie Robinson is far slower afield and less powerful at bat (.275) than in his heyday of six successive over-.300 seasons. But for upwards of $30,000, plus a journeyman left-handed pitcher, the sixth-place Giants bought one of baseball's alltime great figures, a pro good enough to make his mark in the record books while carrying a blackman's special burden on his back...