Word: plates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...starter against Brandeis will probably be Dick Garibaldi, a sophomore right hander who opened the season as the team's top pitcher. Garibaldi has not been able to find the plate too consistently, but Shepard is hoping the warm weather will help his control...
MERGER-HUNGRY New York Central is asking ICC to include it in the pending Norfolk & Western, Nickel Plate and Wabash combine that might later join the Pennsylvania Railroad. Central fears being left out as the East moves toward two giant rail networks centered about the Pennsy and the Chesapeake & Ohio...
Died. Thomas Henry Connolly, 90 the man behind the plate when Chicago beat Cleveland, 8-2, to launch the American League in 1901, an even-tempered, English-born umpire who once went ten years without thumbing a player from a game was named to Baseball's Hall of Fame in 1954, the year he quit the game; of a heart attack; in Natick, Mass...
...pitchers can start getting the ball over the plate--and avoid having it hit too hard, too often--the Crimson can still have a chance for the title...
...Dame instead. Not until sophomore year did he finally decide to play professional baseball. The scouts were as anxious as ever. Yastrzemski refused a $100,000 offer from the Cincinnati Reds, also got a special tryout from the Milwaukee Braves. He collected 23 hits in 24 trips to the plate, and the drooling Braves offered $115,000. They were turned down too. Milwaukee, Carl decided, was too far from Bridgehampton. The snooty New York Yankees were crossed off Yastrzemski's list when they made him dress with the batboys after a workout, refused to let his father into...