Word: pitchs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possesses probably the strongest throwing arm of any outfielder in the business: from 420 ft. away, he has fired a perfect strike to the plate to catch a runner trying to score from third. Though he is only 5 ft. 11 in. and 185 Ibs., he can hit any pitch-good or bad, and with power, as Cincinnati Pitcher Milt Pappas found out on that extraordinary day last week...
...Demonic Pitch. Musicians who could play the quirky rhythms of Ellis' arrangements, or even tap their feet to them, were hard to come by. Eventually, he lined up a group, which today includes teachers, studio men, students and one lawyer, that could feel at home with everything from a quasi-classical passacaglia and fugue to raga time. After months of rehearsals, he brought in a score in 3⅔ time, and the band read it at sight. "That was the turning point," recalls Ellis. "The time barrier had been broken...
Last week the band capped off the first Los Angeles Jazz Festival with an electrifying performance that brought 4,000 jazz buffs in U.C.L.A.'s Pauley Pavilion to their feet, cheering "More! More!" The trim, bearded Ellis lunged about the stage whipping the music to a demonic pitch, molding the arrangements on the spot by cuing his men in and out with shouts and hand signals. Occasionally, he pivoted and loosed a flock of high-flying notes from a specially made four-valve trumpet that enables him to play 24 tones in an octave, rather than the usual twelve...
Center fielder Lord then struck out swinging, but got to first when the wildly-thrown third strike got past the catcher. Smith jogged in from third on the wild pitch with Harvard's second run. After a slick doubleplay, Pete Karegeannes rescued Hootstein with a sharp single for the third...
Yale's brighest moment came in the eighth when a single and two errors by second baseban Houston loaded the bases with two outs. A pitch by Peters nicked Bill Von Koch to drive in a run, but Peters struck out Yale's cleanup man, Ed Goldstone, to end the inning...