Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This would be hard enough to duplicate with the normal losses through graduation, but Shepard's problems are magnified by his losing not only his top pitcher, Andy Ward, but five other regular starters, Don Butters, Bill Chauncey, Bill Cleary, Dick Hoffman, and Captain George MacDonald...
...Slugger Ted Williams, yanked out of baseball for 17 months when the Marine Corps sent him off to fly combat missions in Korea in 1952, sounded a wrathful cry over the plight of Johnny Podres. Now a 1-A military draft eligible, Brooklyn's A-1 Pitcher Podres, 23, winner of two of the four victories that gave the Dodgers their first world championship last fall, spent the past three years in the 4-F bracket because of a bad back. Ever mum about his own recall to a second long tour of duty, Marine Williams fumed: "When Podres...
...Bang the Drum Slowly is Catcher Bruce Pearson. He is a baseball and football tramp. His near illiteracy was no handicap at a Southern university, but with the Mammoths, one of the New York big league teams, he is strictly a marginal player: a positive handicap to the pitcher, endowed only with a real passion for pasting the ball. Next to visiting prostitutes, Bruce's favorite off-diamond pastime is sitting at hotel windows and spitting into the street. What fascinates Bruce is the fact that, when spitting from on high, he can put a curve...
Bruce is more victim than hero, the means whereby Pitcher Henry Wiggen, the narrator of Bang, can make his point that ballplayers belong to the fraternity of men. Bruce has Hodgkin's disease, and any moment may be his last. That is why Ace Pitcher Wiggen makes it part of his contract that Bruce must be kept on with the Mammoths as long as he is. That is why the players who had got their kicks out of riding the dumb catcher suddenly expose hidden reserves of tenderness and simple decency. There is one bad apple, and that...
Until the day he died in 1934, the Giants' Manager McGraw insisted that Evers had made the put-out with a phony ball. According to McGraw, his first-base coach, Old Pitcher "Iron Man" McGinnity, had grabbed the ball hit by Bridwell and heaved it into the stands. Evers, of course, told a different version, and the league decided that this time Evers was right...