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Word: pitches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Springfield pushed over three tallies in both the second and third innings off starter Cook, who was having trouble keeping his curve from hanging but deserved to be unscored on in each frame. In the second, Tom Johnson walked, moved along on a sacrifice and wild pitch, then beat Cook's pitch with a dramatic steal of home. A throwing error by third baseman Mo Balboni followed, opening the door for two more runs on a single and double...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Springfield Nine Trounces Varsity; Weak Defense Allows 12-2 Victory | 4/22/1959 | See Source »

...first question mark is Wally Cook, the lean sophomore right-hander whom Shepard has named to pitch for the Crimson. Top hurler on last year's powerful freshman team, Cook has the best potential on the pitching staff but was disappointing in last week's loss to Navy...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Cook to Pitch for Crimson Nine Against Springfield Team Today | 4/21/1959 | See Source »

...Madras" Symphony was scored for a normal symphony orchestra minus trumpets, trombones and tubas. Added were tablas (tuned Indian hand drums) and the jalatarang (a set of eleven porcelain rice bowls of different pitch, depending on size and thickness). The players of the tablas and jalatarang had their entrance cues but were otherwise free to improvise, if necessary, around Cowell's themes. It was a languorous, curiously hypnotic work, with a wavering melodic line that occasionally died away before syncopated flights of the tablas. Said one Indian observer: "A mood as lovely as twilight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gifts to the Orient | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

Smoke-ball Kirby's mysterious pitch had little effect on Harvard in the early stages, as Mouse Kasarjian hit a triple, and Leamy and Harrington each got a single, and Martin, Davis, and Boulris made two singles apiece, all in the first five innings. Boulris came through with another single in the ninth which drove in one of the two runs, the other of which came from relief pitcher Jones' inaccurate throwing...

Author: By Jean J. Darling, | Title: Varsity Baseball Defeats Brandeis | 4/18/1959 | See Source »

...Junior Varsity baseball team will go after another win today as they play the B.U. Freshmen on the Varsity field. Bill Cunningham will pitch his first game of the year, and either Pete Tague or Stu Forbes will be behind the plate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J.V. Baseball Team to Meet B.U. | 4/17/1959 | See Source »

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