Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Democrats were eating high on the hog. At Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, 1,300 diners paid $100 a plate for a meal of crab meat in avocado pear figaro, consommé de volaille madrilene, paupiette of Boston sole Marguery, filet mignon sauté with mushroom colbert, salad chiffonade Argenteuil, bombe vanilla sur socle with black cherries jubilee. Cocktails and two kinds of wine were thrown...
While the Crimson was unable to do anything effective at the plate, Yale put together a stolen base, an infield error, two singles, a double, and some hard base-running for single tallies in the second and third...
...more Crimson runs pattered across the plate int he eighth when Mariaschin walked, took third on Brendan Reilly's pinch double, and scored in front of Walt Adler, who ran for Reilly, on Yale's first-sacker George' Bush's mishandling of Caulfield's pinch...
...Crosley Field last week, Pitcher Schoolboy Rowe, a lantern-jawed giant of a man, was in trouble. He glanced around, mopped his brow with his fingers. Two Cincinnati players were on base, and a dangerous man was stepping up to bat. Schoolboy fired the ball in toward the plate...
Rowe obligingly rolled it in from the pitcher's box on the ground. By the time it reached home plate, if not before, it was dry. Growled Ott: "Sliders and sinkers revolve-you can't see the stitches on the seams as they come to the plate like you can with a spitter." Other pitchers-Rip Sewell, Fred Ostermueller, Claude Passeau-have been unofficially accused of using "spit-sweat" balls in pinches. They deny it, and so does Schoolboy Rowe...