Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perhaps the most crucial play of the whole afternoon occurred in the very next series of downs. The Crimson had moved the ball out from its 22 to its 46, when Ravenel began a fatal run to his left end. Caught out there, he attempted to pitch back to Larry Repsher...
...fisherman, Inao is tall for a Japanese (5 ft. 9 in., 165 Ibs.), is nicknamed "Sai," which means rhinoceros. He began his baseball career as a catcher ("The school team was short of a catcher, and I did not know the catcher's position was scorned"), switched to pitching in high school; signed by the Nishitetsu Lions, Inao helped pitch his team to pennants in 1956 and 1957, won a total of 56 games in two years. This year, with the season two-thirds gone, the Lions were 10½ games out of first place-despite the fact that...
...seven series games against the Yomiuri Giants, Inao pitched in six. In the opening game the heavy-hitting Giants pickled his slider, beat him 9-2. He sat out the second game (won by Yomiuri 7-3), came back after two days of rest to lose a 1-0 heartbreaker, even though he allowed only three hits and walked nobody. The rain forced a day's postponement, and Inao's luck changed. He beat the Giants 6-4. Next day he relieved in the fourth inning, won his own game 4-3 with a tenth-inning homer. Inao...
Ford brought out its 1959 Edsel this week with a face lifting, but it carefully redesigned the whole selling pitch for its one-year-old youngster. Instead of competing with medium-priced cars, as originally planned, Edsel is now aimed at the low-priced buyer. Ford switched Edsel's price range from last year's $2,300-$3,489 to $2,320-$2,807 by dropping two of last year's higher-priced models (the Citation and the Pacer), thus bringing Edsel down into the price range of the top series of the Big Three...
...through the second period, the play kept at the same high pitch. The referees had a particularly busy afternoon as did the coaches, who did their best to rest their personnel with their meager substitutions...