Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pitcher's Penmanship...
...summer afternoon in 1890, a gawky farm hand named Denton True Young came down from "the Ohio hills to try out as a pitcher for the Canton baseball team of the Tri-State League. He had no uniform, and the Canton manager did not even bother to use a catcher. One of the team's best batters simply stood in front of the grandstand, and the kid started firing the ball past him. The batter never got a piece of it, and the big farmer's fast ball almost tore up the grandstand backboard. "Looks like a cyclone...
...Griffith, 85, president and owner of the Washington Senators since 1919, one of the founders of the American League (1901), old-time Hall-of-Fame pitching star; in Washington. Griffith got into the game in 1887, remained on active playing rosters until 1914, was a famed 20-game winning pitcher for the oldtime Chicago Colts. He joined the league that he helped to form when he signed with the Chicago White Sox in 1901 as player-manager, won the youthful league's first pennant. Two years later he became the first manager of New York's Highlanders, ancestors...
...moral seems to be that the couch cannot call the calipers black. In phrenological terms, the Bump of Causality remains as unobtrusive as a pitcher's mound in Death Valley, while the Bump of Self-Esteem looms over it like Pike's Peak...
Billy put on a vaudeville show for the Lord and organized it on big-business lines. Apart from his habitual pitcher's stance, he had a repertory of skits which included 1) the unrepentant drunk; 2) the "red-nosed, buttermilk-eyed, beetle-browed, peanut-brained, stall-fed old saloonkeeper"; 3) the society woman who spends her time on yachts drinking wine, her "miserable hands red with blood." His masterpiece was probably his theological version of the popular poem, Slide, Kelly, Slide! In this, Sunday impersonated both God (The Great Umpire of the Universe) and poor Kelly himself...