Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impotent bat and the omnipotent pitch, the National League's Cincinnati Reds are a curious anachronism. Their mound staff is a monument to mediocrity, which is why they are a hopeless 15½ games behind the St. Louis Cardinals. But Red batsmen are rattling the fences from Crosley Field to Candlestick Park. The team batting average is .270, tops in either league by 18 points. Four of their hitters are among the league's top ten; a fifth, Third Baseman Tony Perez, is second only to San Francisco's Willie McCovey in RBls with...
This is a high-pitched book, but not only to Australians will the pitch ring true. What Keneally is saying is that out of man's appalling origins, grace and art will come, through courage. His story is as lovely and as spare as a falcon stooping...
Gradual Shift. The opportunity for the Republicans envisaged by Dan Evans is based on more than the Democrats' problems. There is a pitch of political questioning in the land that goes beyond anything felt since the Depression. People challenge the system. Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Byrd Jr., for one, last week declared that conventions are a "political carnival that should be abolished." More seriously, many ask whether the present ramshackle setup, from confused nominating procedures all the way up to the archaic Electoral College, can really be relied on to represent the majority will. Of more immediate interest...
...other coordinate is a more complicated matter of listening for a so-called Doppler shift in frequency. If the echo comes from the side of the planet spinning toward Earth, it will rise in frequency, just as the whistle of an approaching train seems to move up in pitch. If the reflection comes from the side rotating away from Earth, it will go down in frequency...
...experience, the experts set certain standards for safety. Any prolonged exposure to a noise level above 85 decibels will eventually result in a loss of hearing acuity for sounds in the frequency range most important for understanding human speech. This range is roughly from 256 cycles per second, the pitch of middle C, to about 2,000 c.p.s., or the C three octaves higher. Acuity is impaired even earlier for higher pitches, such as violin overtones...