Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week's NBC telecast (cost: $250,000), the Wallace camp has bought an other half-hour for national showing on ABC this week. Money seems to be no serious problem. Though the figures are secret, one estimate places contributions at $40,000 a day. Featuring a special pitch for funds at the end of each show, the television broadcasts even pay for themselves...
...includes a slider, a medium-speed curve and a jug-handle changeup as well as a fastball?all of which he can deliver either overhand, three-quarter-arm or sidearm?McLain's main assets are speed and control. Cuteness and cunning are foreign to him: he rarely wastes a pitch, and he does not try to sucker batters into swinging at bad balls. "Control is God-given," Denny claims. "Like a good arm. You don't develop it, and I thank God He gave me both." Last month, in a typical McLain display of power and accuracy, Denny fired seven...
...before throwing it violently to the ground. Like a high-school wise guy, he tilts his cap so far down over his eyes that he has to cock his head back to see the catcher's signs. Then, with the barest hint of a nod, Denny is ready to pitch. He squirts a stream of spittle out of his mouth, the left corner of his upper lip curls back in a sneer, his hands come slowly together at his chest. Suddenly he wheels to the right, rears back and throws. If it is a strike, McLain licks his teeth with...
More often than not, Denny's second pitch is identical to the first. So is the third. He delights in tweaking danger by the nose just for the sheer, perverse fun of it. An opponent who hits a home run off McLain's fastball will probably get another hummer the next time he comes to bat. Denny is always anxious to prove that any hit was a fluke...
...English teacher at Mt. Carmel, remembers Denny well: "He had a lot of trouble keeping his mouth shut." And he was no whiz in the classroom, although he managed to maintain a C average. Denny insists that he was really better than that. "I went to school like I pitch," he says. "I am as good as I want to be. I could study 20 minutes and pass a test. Or I could pass without studying. I'll bet I didn't crack twelve books in four years...