Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commuter nine played off five games in three days, whipping Winthrop, Kirkland, Eliot, Adams and Dunster in that order. The team, sparked by pitcher Ed Snow, then easily took the measure of Yale's Berkeley College...
...after day, Rookie Pitcher Alva Holloman of the St. Louis Browns plucked at Manager Marty Marion's sleeve. "I'm not a bullpen pitcher," "Bobo" Holloman would say. "I'm a starting pitcher. Give me a chance." Manager Marion just kept shaking his head. Two or three times, Bobo was called in from the bull pen to do a little relief pitching. But the big (205 Ibs., 6 ft. 2 in.), 27-year-old righthander was not very impressive: ten hits, five earned runs in 5½ innings. One night last week, tired of Bobo...
...Pitcher: Simmons, Philadelphia (5-1) Batter: Wyrostek,Philadelphia (.406) Runs Batted In: Campanella, Brooklyn (38) Home Runs: Campanella...
...Pitcher: Parnell, Boston...
...each stanza is declaimed, the entire cast freezes into a tintype tableau. Then everybody but Casey (Louis Venora), who is impressive but mute, bursts into songs of Schuman and Gury devising. Among them: a what-does-the-catcher-say-to-the-pitcher number, a kill-the-umpire rhubarb and, after the immortal third strike, a heartfelt requiem. But the piece ends on a happy note: Casey is still a hero to his girl. Musically, the opera was ingenious if not immortal-though at an hour and 20 minutes, it was about 20 minutes too long. Nonetheless, the Hartford audience seemed...