Word: sidearming
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...easy looking curves, mixed with occasional fast ones, break a world series record by striking out 13, saw him in the third inning, with two men on, fan famed Hitters Rogers Hornsby and Hack Wilson with a total of seven pitched balls. Every delivery, made with a sidearm motion wide of the box, kept the ball lined against a blind spot, made by some extra bleachers in the green outfield, which Ehmke had noticed in practice. Rallying behind him, the Athletics took enough hits from Chicago Pitcher Charley Root...
...alternating current of Yale's baseball fortunes for 1923 became unexpectedly direct in the closing fortnight. The New Haven team won the championship of the major Eastern intercollegiate triangle mainly by virtue of the curious sidearm delivery of Pitcher " Duck" Pond. Pond, who is a Sophomore, defeated both Princeton and Harvard twice in eleven days...