Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where the time goes. The game proved to be the shortest played at Ebbets Field in two years-one hour, 51 minutes*;but the ball was actually in play only 18 minutes 34.7 seconds of that time. Here is how many of the other 92 minutes were spent: Pitcher Don Newcombe used the rosin bag 28 times, dawdling 2 to 18.1 seconds each time, and talked with Catcher Roy Campanella as long as 45 seconds at a huddle...
...Gloom. There is little that is gloomy or institutional about the camp. Sports are encouraged but never forced. A boy in a wheelchair is pitcher in a softball game; another on crutches plays first base. Most popular sport: swimming, with "hiking"-on crutches or in wheelchairs-a close second. The $80 cost per child [for a two-week stay] is split between the state association and the child's family or sponsor. The beneficial effects of these investments are soon apparent...
Just completing his first Senate term, Hunt seldom stole the limelight, but was respected for his painstaking work on the Armed Services Committee. A semi-pro baseball pitcher in his youth, he spent 22 years in politics (twice state governor), and was the Senate's only dentist. Wyoming's Governor C. J. Rogers, a Republican, said he expected to name Hunt's successor soon to serve until next January...
...school he was something of a dude, and a natural standout in every sport he tried. In baseball he was an outstanding pitcher and outfielder, played against local coal miners' teams. In football he was a fast backfield star (a "scat back" according to Snead). He was on the track team and he boxed. He found little time for books...
...Crimson, further handicapped by the rainiest May in Boston's rainy history, has massed several games and innumerable practice sessions this spring. And even this afternoon the weather bureau has announced a third starting pitcher, Jupiter Pluvius, whose efforts could conceivably preclude the appearance of Cooke and Mackenzie...