Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admits to throwing an occasional beanball. He discusses the batting weaknesses of leading sluggers. He says the illegal spitball is "quite popular in the National League," laments only the fact that "I need a good stiff wind blowing straight out from the plate to get anything on the pitch...
...could not wait to see Black Sheep Brosnan trip over his big mouth and fall right out of baseball. "You think this book was funny?" chortled Cardinals' Manager Solly Hemus, Brosnan's pet hate and the man who traded him to Cincinnati. "Wait until you see him pitch...
...first six passes around the earth, Discoverer XIV looked sick. At the Air Force Ballistic Missile Division in Inglewood, Calif., the project officer, Colonel C. Lee Battle, listened gloomily as tracking reports filtered in. The news was bad: on only its second pass, Discoverer XIV started to pitch drunkenly; its stabilizing jets, struggling desperately to halt the satellite's violent gyrations, began draining precious fuel. Battle figured Discoverer's fuel supply would be so low by the 17th circuit-when its instrument package was to be cut loose-that the capsule could not be aimed at the programed...
...poof, it could be all over for one of these boys." Under such pressure, Johnson's greatest asset will be his bedrock of self-reliance, a quality that keeps him from having few really intimate friends, but allows him to work himself up to a cold competitive pitch ten times during the wearying grind of the decathlon. In Rome, Johnson will have an added incentive: he is quitting the decathlon after the Olympics. "I've had it," says Johnson. "It's time I started concentrating on a few other things." Rafer Johnson would like eventually to travel...
...weary, cheeks feverishly afire with fine wine. He had the Broadway boulevardier's neon eye for his sort of news; sent in 1935 to the Metropolitan Opera to hear Lily Pons, he returned to praise not her larynx but her navel: "Who cares for a mat ter of pitch when one can gaze upon the loveliest tummy that ever graced the operatic stage...