Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN Dallas Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch was a bush-league pitcher before World War II, he often daydreamed of sitting on the St. Louis Cardinals' bench and hearing the manager say: "Frank, we need this one for the pennant...
...game he pitched for the Verdi (Nev.) Ramblers against the Fallen (Nev.) Merchants in the Sierra Nevada League he will never forget. Verdi's starting pitcher walked the first three men up. "Then they took him out for wildness and put me in," Frank recalls. Frank's best pitch in those days was a sidearm fast ball, thrown with a kind of rural free delivery-sometimes the ball went all over the countryside. His first pitch caught the batter in the back, forcing in a run. His second hit the next batter, and forced in another...
...Pitcher McCulloch never made the Cardinals' bench, but Newsman McCulloch did. When he went up from Dallas to report this week's cover story on August Anheuser Busch Jr., he had a chance to watch the Cards' workout from the bench, courtesy of Owner Busch. While there, a front-office man told him that the Cards had in their files an old scout report on him. It said: fast but wild; watch. Frank finished college at the University of Nevada ('41), worked as a reporter for the United Press, and joined the Marines to fight...
...Pitcher: Newcombe, Brooklyn...
...Pitcher: Wynn, Cleveland...