Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dodgers won the next one. Then in the ninth inning of the fourth game came the big moment. There were two men out, and two men on. The Dodgers were trailing 2-1. On the mound was the Yankees' big Bill Bevens, who was just a pitch or so from baseball immortality: in sight of the first no-hitter in World Series history...
Victory Dance. The loudspeaker roared out "Lavagetto batting for Stanky." Oldtimer "Cookie" Lavagetto, a near has-been, who had been a Dodger longer (eleven years) than anyone else on the team, rubbed dirt on his hands and strode up to bat. He swung viciously at the first pitch, trying too hard. The next pitch was high but Cookie swung again-and this time connected. The ball screamed toward right field, hit the fence six feet over Outfielder Tommy Henrich's head...
...come technicians* (chemists, mechanics, carpenters, electricians), then professional men. Merchants without special skills are discouraged. Venezuelans prefer Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese to Slavs or Germans. Few Jews are admitted; caraqueños contend that they are almost as hard to assimilate as men & women from the U.S., tend to "pitch-their camps too near the Plaza Bolivar in the capital...
...even in the usually placid interval between halves did last Saturday's high pitch of excitement waver. Definitely outclassed instrumentally along the ground, the B.U. band resorted to the use of their air arm to gain a tie in the much heralded-by BU tub thumpers-battle of the bands...
With pre-game raids and rallies raising student spirits to fever pitch, an underdog Boston University squad will pose the first crucial test of the season for the Crimson eleven at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon in Harvard Stadium. In the three previous clashes between the two universities, Harvard has never been defeated, or even had its goal-line crossed. The Crimson downed the Terriers 10 to 0 in 1921, 13 to 0 in 1924, and 60 to 0 in a 1945 war-time encounter...