Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baltimore, Greentree Stable's Tom Fool, top handicap horse of 1953, ran his undefeated streak to ten straight by taking the $50,000 Pimlico Special, under a tight rein, in the track-record time of 1:55 4/5 for the mile and three-sixteenths. ¶ In Tokyo, Yankee Pitcher Ed Lopat's All-Star baseball team, billed as the "greatest array of major-league stars ever to visit Japan," was staggered, 5-4, in its opening game, by the Mainichi Orions, a second-division club in the Pacific League. Among the fallen stars: Yankees Yogi Berra and Billy...
Third Game. Two games down and burning to 'win in their home park, the Dodgers gave Pitcher Erskine a second chance. Erskine brought Brooklyn back into the Series, struck out 14 Yankees (Mickey Mantle four times) to set a Series record. Catcher Campanella, bothered by a swollen hand that had been hit by a first-game pitch, suddenly recovered. His eighth-inning homer beat the Yanks...
Team: Brooklyn (by 13 games) Pitcher: Spahn, Milwaukee (23-7) Batter: Furillo, Bklyn. (.344) Runs Batted In: Campanella...
Team: New York (by 8½ games) Pitcher: Parnell, Boston (21-8) Batter: Vernon, Wash. (.337) Runs Batted In: Rosen...
...Dodgers overcame a four-run deflcit, backed Yankoo relief pitcher Johnny Sain against the well, and threatened to break the first game of the 1953 World Series wide open before they fell apart themselves. Sain and the Yanks gained a 9 to 5 victory...