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Word: pitches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then the return to good old Fenway, where the Sox needed but one win to become undisputed champs for the first time since 1918, or a lot of foul balls ago. Once again, Rick Wise was called upon to pitch "the most important game of his life" as Dick Stockton likes to say, the fifth most important game of his life in the last month, that...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Red Sox Take Series on Lynn Slam | 10/10/1975 | See Source »

Another suggestion: find a new hurricane to extend the Oakland series to twenty days so that Luis Tiant can pitch every game. Harvard's Pat McInally is still trying to decide between a Rhodes scholarship and a professional career. The Bengals may be wishing that he got the damn Rhodes...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Tom Columns | 10/4/1975 | See Source »

...himself with Ford policies. He echoed a repeated Ford complaint about the evils of relying too much on Washington. "I want the Federal Government to keep its cotton-pickin' hands out of our business unless there's something we absolutely can't handle," Wyman declared. The pitch did not work. Wyman failed to carry nine of the 14 towns in which Ford campaigned for him. Nor did he win in Manchester, where California's Conservative Ronald Reagan stumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Message from New Hampshire | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

...definitely be able to pitch four right-handers against Cleveland," Boston manager Darrell Johnson said yesterday, "something I've been wanting to do right along. The rain also means that Luis Tiant will get some extra rest for his back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New York Rain Boosts Red Sox Nearer to Pennant | 9/25/1975 | See Source »

...17th floor and was positive our building was going to pitch too far and crash to the ground. I have had a couple of close calls flying in two wars, but I have never been more frightened than that morning. And my life did pass before my eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Sep. 22, 1975 | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

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