Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rose prose, with a base of carnival-barker shrewdness and a pink topping of cotton-candy poetry, has caught the crowd like an inspired midway pitch. Only last week his column caught 17 more papers. By June 10 he expects to close a deal sewing up 3,000 U.S. weekly newspapers. That would put him thousands of readers up on Winchell himself. With no pretense to modesty, Columnist Rose predicts: "I'll be second only to the Bible...
...first. Roared Haas: "That was that sweat ball!" The sweat ball (which is a spit ball parading as an accident of nature) is illegal. But the umpire shook his head and the game went on. Schoolboy Rowe of the Philadelphia Phillies grinned; whatever it was, that pitch had gotten him out of many a tight spot...
Jack Wallace and Brendon Reilly, the workhorses of the Varsity pitching staff, will be called on again today, while Cornell, forced to play four league games in two days, is expected to pitch Tom Turner and Ken Battles...
With one down in the last of the seventh, pinch-hitter Robert (Tie) Cobb leaped high in the air to stroke the 0 and 2 pitch out of the premises with one mate aboard...
Then little by little he turns on the compressed air, increasing the power while the pitch remains the same. From the start, the sound is painfully loud. Above a certain intensity its apparent loudness does not increase; the ear contains safety devices which keep it from registering sounds too loud for it to handle...