Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ventured another bunt. He was right. The catcher hit him in the back with the ball and the bases were loaded. Houston then grounded sharply to the left side of the infield. The Holy Cross shortstop made a diving catch but had no play as Neville crossed the plate...
...find out who's best - them or me." Other pitchers play around with windups, curves, sliders, screwballs and such. Not Gibson. He uses hardly any windup at all, simply rears back and fires-with a great paroxysm of flailing arms and legs that carries him halfway to the plate. He throws fastballs 90% of the time, and he often has only the foggiest notion of where they are going to go. "Mostly," says Philadelphia's Johnny Callison, "they just go sssssst...
...assortment casts neither light nor doubt on Updike's competence, and many of the entries are so minor as to defy measurement. But to someone who did not see it in The New Yorker in 1960, his grandstand account of Ted Williams' last trip to the plate in Boston's Fenway Park (Williams hit a home run) is worth the full price of admission to these pages...
Marden is a pitcher and outfielder. His batting average is 354, but his prowess at the plate is dwarfed by his amazing pitching. Marston's record is 4-2-1; in 58 innings he has struck out 102 batters, given up only 35 hits, and issued 43 walks. His earned run average...
Harvard clinched the game in the second inning. Gary Miller and McCandlish singled, and Miller came across the plate when the Bulldogs' right fielder dropped Tom Bilodeau's fly ball...