Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Charles Albert ("Chief") Bender, 71, famed Indian pitcher for the old Philadelphia Athletics, who helped his team win five American League pennants (1905, 1910-11, 1913-14), compiled a record of 206 victories and in defeats, last year was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame; of cancer; in Philadelphia...
Ever since Cleveland's Pitcher Bob Feller burst on the baseball scene 18 years ago as "the fastest man since Walter Johnson," baseball scouts have combed the bushes and sandlots looking for another speed-bailer. "Faster than Feller" became the standard label for any strong-armed busher with speed, and since "Rapid Robert's" heyday, countless youngsters have been called "another Feller." None has managed to live up to his press clippings. But last week baseball men were finally convinced that another Feller had arrived in the person of burly (6 ft. 2 in., 207 Ibs.) Robert...
...object of this acclaim takes his successes as calmly as his failures. Early in the season Turley pitched dramatic no-hit ball for eight and one-third innings against Cleveland, then lost the game 2-1 on a single and a home run by Larry Doby. Ordinarily, a pitcher would make crestfallen excuses. Not Turley. "I've always been amused," said he. "to read the statements pitchers make when something bad happens to them. 'The pitch got away from me.' they say. This one got away from me-350 feet away. I threw Doby the precise pitch...
...even offered to drop their opening commercial) but happy to accept the Information Service's offer to reimburse them by the $522 spent for Bannister's airline passage to the U.S., managed to struggle along with another, if less famed, athlete: Jack Warhop, the oldtime Yankee pitcher who served up the first major-league home-run ball to Babe Ruth...
Against converted pitcher John Maher, starter and finisher for the Crimson, the vaunted Crusaders, only undefeated team in New England, did not have an especially easy time in racking up victory number eleven. Maher gave up eight hits and three walks, but only two of the runs were earned, thanks to two errors by usually reliable shortstop Ed Krinsky...