Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Petersburg,the New York Yankees sold expensive (salary: $40,000) Pitcher Vic Raschi, 34, to the St. Louis Cardinals of the National League. Raschi, who won 13 while losing six last season, had balked at a salary cut, and the Yankees, said General Manager George Weiss, were fed up with "independently wealthy men, who, through the winning of five pennants and world championships, have become too complacent." Within four days, Holdouts Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford agreed to sign their Yankee contracts...
Within the last few months, death came to many noted men and women. For each question below, two correct answers are possible. Write in either name. 68. Each of these contributed greatly to the sports world before death claimed them. One had converted Babe Ruth from a pitcher to an outfielder and helped build the Yankee ball club; the other teamed with the immortal Knute Rockne to popularize the forward pass. 69. Within two weeks of each other, two of Britain's onetime Cabinet members died. One, a politician diplomat who resigned in protest against Munich; the other a distinguished...
...York Giants traded the man who won them a pennant in 1951. Outfielder Bobby Thomson, 30, whose ninth-inning play-off homer beat Brooklyn, went to the Milwaukee Braves for Pitcher Johnny Antonelli in a six-player deal...
...Some 90% of its 400 regular pupils are girls. Balanchine shakes his head sadly about this, thinks it is because U.S. parents have an idea that dancing "is sissy," despite the fact that the male dancers must be strong enough to lift ballerinas over their heads. "Look at a pitcher," he says. "His windup is just as much of a dance, if you look at it in slow motion, as anything our boys do." An Exercise in Nostalgia. From his school, Choreographer Balanchine can pick the kind of girls he always wanted for his company. His favorite qualities: 1) long...
...finally took the pledge, too, though it did not seem to lessen his zest for fun or the game he loved. In recent years he directed the New York Journal-American's sandlot-baseball program. Among his alumni: Yankee Pitcher Whitey Ford, Brooklyn Pitcher Billy Loes. Last week, as baseball writers were sealing their ballots for elections to the game's Cooperstown Hall of Fame, Rabbit Maranville, among the leading candidates, died of a heart attack at 61 in his New York City home. There were many who fondly remembered the Rabbit's quick chuckle...