Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FEVER PITCH (255 pp.)-David Caute-Pantheon...
...Fever Pitch is more than the substance behind the headlines. In spite of a good deal of boyishness (Author Caute seems to think that repetition is a literary virtue), an atmosphere of urgent truth plays over the book. Hopelessness is as pervasive as the debilitating climate. And black victory is as depressing in its consequences as white defeat. Certainly the British army has seldom looked so drearily ineffective, and black Africans have seldom been decked out in such deliberate cynicism...
...help from the Dartmouth infield came in the sixth, when the Crimson scored its other three runs. Phil Bernstein's hit, an error on a sacrifice, Diehl's single, a wild pitch, a sacrifice fly by Yarbro, and another error on a throw from the outfield accounted for the three unearned runs...
Shepard was testing the capsule's maneuvering system, which can control changes of pitch, yaw or roll by emitting spurts of gas. Every movement was completed with ease...
...rookie of 1951, now a hardened, introspective veteran of 30, had something to worry about. He had failed to get a hit in eight straight times at bat; his average had dropped to .290. When Warren Spahn, on the way to his no-hitter, carelessly fed Mays a fat pitch, Willie meekly grounded back to the box. "I was in deep," said Willie, "and I thought I was going deeper." Then, in another game against the Braves, Mays suddenly snapped out of his slump. Battering three Milwaukee pitchers, he became the ninth player in baseball history to hit four home...