Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last spring Rossano was the top pitcher in the Greater Boston League, compiling a record of four victories and no defeats. He won his two games in the Eastern Intercollegiate League...
...middle of June the varsity baseball team recovered from a 5-1 defeat from Yale to defeat the Eli's on their home diamond, 4-2, in the final game of a three-game serias. Andy Ward was the opening pitcher in the defeat. Captain elect Rossano had the honors in the last game. Harvard lost the first game in the EIBL play-offs...
...summer heat melted bis congregation, the Rev. Richard L. Key of Yuma, Ariz, took a bold step. To publicize his nondenominational First Christian Church, he signed a contract with radio station KOLD to sponsor local night baseball games. Sports-loving Pastor Key, 37, a pitcher in Yuma's adult softball league and a sometime newscaster, did not bear down too heavily on salvation between the innings. His talks-mostly about perseverance, hope, kindness-had plenty of light moments. When the microphone caught a ballplayer cursing, Pastor Key pointed up an alternative to swearing with the story of the Quaker...
...could scarcely generate more excitement. In a few minutes in the second inning, the Yankees looked like a pennant-winning ball club; Manager Casey Stengel was the hunch-playing "perfesser" of old. The score was tied (1-1), there was one out, and the bases were full of Yanks. Pitcher Rip Coleman, who was holding his own on the mound, was due at the plate. But Casey yanked him in favor of Pinch-Hitter Bob Cerv, who stepped up and hit a single. Two runs scored. Then Outfielder Elston Howard bounced a home run off the right-field foul pole...
AMERICAN LEAGUE Team: Cleveland (by ½ game) Pitcher: Byrne, New York (13-4) Batter: Kaline, Detroit (.350) Runs Batted In: Jensen, Boston; Boone, Detroit (102) Home Runs: Mantle, New York...