Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sorry to Leave." By All-Star rules, Blackwell could pitch only three innings. The score was 0-0 when he left (the American League's veteran Hal Newhouser was matching Blackwell's fine performance). The only man to reach first base against Blackwell was Joe DiMaggio, who drove a single over second base. Ewell Blackwell left the game, said later: "I had plenty of stuff and I felt kinda sorry to leave...
Months of preparation and days of travel will reach their culmination today when the Salzburg Seminar in American Civilization officially opens at Castle Leopoldskron in Austria...
...monkeys. One had his tripod snatched from under him by a crafty chimpanzee he was trying to photograph. Eileen Darby, who took the pictures at the St. Louis zoo, underwent an encounter with an orangutan named Henry that is still keeping her awake nights. She had to get within reach for a close-up shot, and Henry, a friendly sort, put an arm around her. When he put the other arm around her and started to wrestle, she looked anxiously at the keeper and asked: "Don't you think he's getting a bit rough...
...money owed the bank (many of them borrow at the start of the season). Last week, most of them thought they were losing money, but none knew for sure. This much they did know: a duck eats 25 pounds of feed in the nine weeks it takes to reach the five-pound-plus marketing size. At $100 a ton for feed, that is $1.25 for a duck which now brings around $1.22½ at the commission house...
Manager Billy Meyer suggested calling for a relief pitcher, but DeRose shook his head and kept going. He threw exactly 93 pitches and did not allow a man to reach first base. It was the first perfect game in the history of the American Association, and the first in baseball's upper layers since Charley Robertson pitched a perfect game for the Chicago White...