Word: platee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maglie was just the second-best pitcher in the game. Towering (6 ft. 4 in., 220 Ibs.) Yankee Larsen was scarcely wasting a pitch. Only once, against Pee Wee Reese in the first inning, did he go to a full count on a batter. His sharp curves found the plate as if they had eyes. He needed no more than 97 pitches (71 of which were in the strike zone) to dispose of the absolute minimum of 27 Dodger hitters, and not a single Dodger got to first base. While the crowd watched tensely, the Dodgers put up their 27th...
...dogged him in the big ones. Big Newk unwound with all he had. When he was on target, his fast ball hummed into life, but when he was wide of the strike zone, he was not wide enough. Even the pitches he wanted to waste hung close to the plate. Squat Yogi Berra, the best fastball hitter in the majors, whacked one of them for a homer in the first inning, another into the stands in the third. After that, the tense series degenerated into a shambles. In the fourth inning, Yankee Outfielder Elston Howard tagged Newk for another homer...
...Boston Red Sox and the Washington Senators in 1917, which was only recently declared "perfect" by baseball's official historians. The first Senator to bat actually reached first base, but he was walked by Pitcher Babe Ruth, who was prompt ly thrown out of the game for clouting Plate Umpire Brick Owens to express his displeasure. The runner was caught stealing, and Relief Pitcher Ernie Shore, called in cold from the bullpen, disposed of the next 26 Senators with out walking one or allowing...
Tenley Albright '57 will exhibit her championship figure skating technique at a $100-a-plate Olympics dinner Oct. 26 at New York's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, despite a promise to the Harvard Medical School that she would Concentrate on Chem 20 this fall and accept no out-of-town engagements until after Thanksgiving...
...Yanks gave the Dodgers a run in the second inning, but brash Billy Martin got one right back with a home run. In the sixth, the Dodgers pushed Pee Wee Reese home from third after he walloped a resounding triple. Slaughter, his team behind once more, came to the plate with two men on and two out. He scowled at Pitcher Roger Craig, glared back across ten years to the fierce joy of that day in 1946 when he hit his last World Series home run (against Boston). Then he parked a 3-and-1 pitch in the right-field...