Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks ago, Sports Illustrated picked up Fuller's classroom discussions on the subject of subterfuge in sports. Fuller defended the baseball catcher's "ethically acceptable" act of pulling a pitch into the strike zone, but condemned the practice of feigning injuries in football contests...
High above the Hudson, Army practiced behind canvas-draped fences, and cadets bellowed fight songs that echoed through West Point's stern, grey buildings. At the Air Force Academy 2,000 miles away in Colorado Springs, the cadets whipped themselves up to such a pitch that they swarmed onto the practice field to shout encouragement at their startled team. For the first time, the new U.S. Air Force Academy was playing the U.S. Military Academy, and right from the start both schools were determined to make the series as memorable as Army-Navy...
...Crimson's mental attitude is at the correct pitch for a meet of such importance. Fitzgerald's injury notwithstanding, the team has confidence in its ability...
...Twisters. Heart of the new U.S. pitch is that the U.S. cannot-and should not have to-carry singlehanded the burden of aid to the underdeveloped nations. At every possible opportunity, from President Eisenhower's recent trip to Europe to last month's meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, the U.S. has been reminding the governments of Western Europe's booming nations that, as part of their contribution to the strengthening of the free world, they should shell out some aid too. By last week, declared a rueful European government official, the U.S. drive...
When he was through throwing his assorted hard stuff (sliders, curves, fast balls) at the White Sox, Fireman Sherry had completed one of the great pitching performances in World Series history. Sherry saved the second game for the Dodgers, 4-3, by relieving Johnny Podres in the seventh, allowing only one run. He saved the third, 3-1, by getting Outfielder Al Smith to bounce into a double play with the bases loaded in the eighth, fanning three men in the ninth. In the fourth game, he set down the White Sox without a hit in the eighth and ninth...