Word: plate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...situation is just as bad. Used to be you could go into Thompson's and get two eggs, toast and a cup of scalding black coffee for 15?. Now it costs you 35?. Two sinkers and a cup of coffee is up from a nickel to 15?. A plate of beef stew used to sell for a dime: now it costs you 30? and it ain't got no meat...
...four years, National League batsmen had been trying to fathom Rip Sewell's pet pitch. Rip called it an ephus ball after an old crap-shooting phrase, ephusiphus-ophus; sportswriters called it a blooper. Whatever its name, it was lobbed up to the plate, fat and inviting, with lots of backspin-and, if hit, usually popped up high in the air to the second-baseman...
Jeers to Cheers. When ex-Marine Ted Williams showed up at spring-training camp last February, somebody dared him to walk up to the plate in his street clothes like a stranger and demand a chance at bat. Said he with great dignity: "No. They'd say I was screwy again." His teammates found themselves liking him for the first time. Either it was the Marines or his bride...
...seventh, the Crimson tied the score by pushing two runners across the plate. Essayan led off with a single over second into center. Vince Moravec flied out. Tom Sullivan then pasted a mighty triple over the right flelder's head scoring Essayan. Bill Harford followed with a single and drove in Sullivan. But the inning was ended with a fluke double play, as Senseney hit a long ball to right, and Page made a brilliant catch and doubled Harford off first...
...without getting a hit. DeKalb and Nevens walked. Moravec committed a balk, advancing them a base, Page fanned. The next man up, Clark, hit an easy grounder to Sullivan at third. In an effort to cut the runner off scoring from third, Sullivan threw the ball in to the plate. The peg was good, but it hit DeKalb in the back and rolled into the Crimson dugout, allowing Nevens to score also, and sending Clark to third from where he scored on a squeeze play by Finnegan. Towne ended the inning by striking...