Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once, playing first base, he shoved his big right paw into his hip pocket for a plug of chewing tobacco. Sam McMackin, the Paterson pitcher, went into his windup. Honus shouted for time; he waved his gloved hand and jumped wildly to attract Mc-Mackin's attention. McMackin pitched anyway. The batter grounded to short...
...seemed well on his way to becoming a big-league baseball player. He signed with the Yankees in 1919, and was slated to become their regular rightfielder. Then he broke his leg running out a spring-training triple. While Halas mended, the Yanks made do with an ex-pitcher named George Herman Ruth. Halas watched his substitute play and wisely decided that he would never get his job back. After that he stuck close to football...
...Just as he did last year, Princeton's injury-prone pass pitcher, Royce N. Flippin Jr., ended a long season of bench-warming by leading his team to an upset victory over Yale...
...Relief Pitcher. In Norwalk, Calif., William J. Pivar was booked on a charge of malicious mischief after he threw an ashtray through a police-station window, told the cops who came out and arrested him: "I feel better...
...more games; for five seasons he won more than 30. Only the late great Walter Johnson, who fanned 3,497 batters in his lifetime, broke Cy's strike-out mark of 2,836. In 1904, pitching for Boston against Philadelphia, Cy became the third pitcher in major-league history to pitch a perfect game...