Word: sinkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eddie Dyer had so many pitchers he needed toes and fingers to count them. Most promising: a 30-year-old Oklahoma newcomer, chisel-chinned ex-Corporal Fred Martin, who has poise, a sizzling fastball, a good curve, a tricky sinker and, most important of all, control. Everywhere Manager Dyer looked he saw more talent than he could use. His problem: which players-especially which pitchers-to sell...
...human skull resting in a bowl of roses, "to make some mistakes your first year. We all do. I got in with some thoroughly objectionable . . . men who ran a mission to hop-pickers in the long vac. But you, my dear Charles . . . have gone straight hook, line and sinker, into the very worst set in the University. . . . There's that chap Sebastian Flyte you seem inseparable from. . . . [He] looks odd to me. ... Of course, they're an odd family...
What he lacks in experience (one season in the Piedmont League, two Army years with the Randolph Field team) is heavily outweighed by 23-year-old Dave Ferriss' superabundant self-confidence. The batters say he has a deceptive motion, almost uncanny control, a natural sinker, a sidearmed curve that is murder for right-handed batsmen. Almost alone, ambidextrous Ferriss boosted the slow-starting Red Sox from last to third place...
...displayed in recent years has been uncovered in the month's activity under the nets. Jim Mains, right-hander from Boston has the fastest ball of any hurler on the lot, and his speedy slants have impressed Coach Samborski. Dave Riley, another rangy ace sports a vicious sinker and a measure of control, while Andy McCullough, another hopeful is steadier than any of the '45 pitchers to date...
...Threw his usual eccentric sinker in tossing out the first ball of the new baseball season (Yanks beat the Nats, 3-0), leaving Woodrow Wilson's clear supremacy as a pitching President still unchallenged...