Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that they had been warned. Early in October the Press proclaimed that it was only Mayor Nelson's "customary courage" that had mada him think he could edit a newspaper. "Will his customary courage," wondered readers, "indue? him to fiddle with the St. Paul's orchestra, to pitch for the St. Paul baseball nine, to preach in St. Paul's pulpits, to teach in the St. Paul High School, to drive the St. Paul trolley...
...Aged Roger Peckinpaugh (discarded by the Yankees as too gouty) came up to bat in the fifth inning, hit one of Pitcher Meadows' (Pittsburgh) offerings, filled bases which already contained Harris and Bluege. Up came Rice. Oof! Strike one. . . . Sugg! Strike two. . . .Pitcher Meadows smiled, wound up to pitch strike three; Rice swung, fans shrieked seeing the ball streak far enough from the plate to bring in Harris and Bluege. Pittsburgh also came up to bat in its regular turn, but Walter Johnson was pitching. In 1913 he could pitch a ball so fast that the eye could...
...Manchester, N. H., lives an elderly policeman named John Smith. He was manager of the Norfolk Club in a Virginia minor league when Mathewson, a big boy, knock-kneed and ungainly, was starting with a team from Taunton. John Smith saw him pitch a game in Manchester and lose 6-5 and signed him for a season with the Virginia club...
...being asked why he picked Washington, Joe answered "Because Walter Johnson is going to pitch." Further inquiry revealed the fact that Joe knows no other baseball luminary...
...that list was in 1908 when he placed ninth; in 1909 he was third, 1912 third, 1913 fourth, 1914 sixth, 1919 fifth, 1920 tenth, 1921 fourth, 1922 fifth. This season he has been playing his standard game, neither better nor worse. He is not capable of rising to a pitch of resistless efficiency; he is always capable of astounding by being just what he is expected to be-always able to confound doom's fifers by playing in any situation dependable, heady, incisive tennis. To every man comes a moment which he can mistake for his "chance." Certain sports...