Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHICAGO, May 27--The Chicago White Sox edged the Cleveland Indians 5-4 in 15 innings today on a two-out, run-scoring single by relief pitcher Jim Wilson but dropped the second game of a double-header...
POSING long hours for Henry Koerner's TIME cover portrait was a completely new experience for Pitcher Robin Roberts...
Artist Koerner showed up early at the Phillies' training camp in Clearwater, Fla. To Koerner, reared in Vienna, baseball was an intriguing discovery, and pitchers strange new subjects. A pitcher, he soon learned, is the twitchiest of all athletes. He squirms, writhes, fusses and tugs at himself like a man with hives until he is ready to throw a baseball. Then, for a fleeting moment, he freezes and fixes the batter with a look of sheer disdain...
Weeks later, when Correspondent Serrell Hill man joined the Phillies on a Western swing, the big pitcher was still remembering the experience. "You ever pose for an artist?" he asked Hillman. ''Koerner had me holding still for two weeks. I came up with a sore back!" But he admitted that he and his Philly teammates finally became fascinated as his portrait emerged from the blobs of oil paint...
...Philadelphia's tiny army of baseball fans can still look the world in the eye. The Phillies may not add up to much of a team, but for the moment it is more than enough that they boast the best pitcher in baseball. This season, as for many a long summer, Philadelphia's oft-punctured pride rides high on the strong right arm of a visiting Middle Westerner named Robin Evan Roberts...