Word: platee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Center fielder Phil Bernstein accounted for two hits and batted in the team's two earned runs. With two out in the fifth, captain Dave Morse beat out a throw to first base while two men romped across the plate. Morse was first ruled out, but Samborski protested, and the homeplate umpire overruled his colleague...
Famous or Notorious. By 1909 Wright was 40, and at the peak of his career. His Larkin Building in Buffalo had pioneered air conditioning, introduced the first metal-bound plate-glass doors, the first all-steel office furniture; with Unity Church in Oak Park, he had invented a whole vocabulary of cubist forms to express a new building material, poured concrete. Publication of his works in Europe created a sensation...
Sloppy base running and a failure to hit with men on base plagued the Crimson all day. Two men were thrown out on the bases, two at the plate, and ten others were left stranded, as the nine-hit attack produced only single runs in the first and fifth innings...
...Huskies collected three more hits in the eighth on two hits, a walk and two hit batsmen--both glancing blows off the buttons. After Johnson forced the second and third runs across the plate, Wally Cook was called in to prevent further damage, which he did neatly by striking out catcher Tom Cangiano on a fast ball and two curves. The loss, the varsity's second against two victories was the first for Johnson...
...Davis in the third inning was nearly turned into a triple play after walks to Harrington and Al Martin. singles by Johnson and Harrington and a walk to Davis loaded the bases in the fifth, but the Crimson scored only once when Harrington was thrown out at the plate trying to follow Johnson on Charlie Ravenel's single to right...