Word: sinkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third stanza Harvard busted the contest wide open, victimizing Gandy four times in three minutes. First a Tony Visone back-hander made it 4-0. Then a Mitch Olson blooper that popped out of Gandy's glove and a tricky sinker off Mark Fusco's stick led to a switch in the Dartmouth...
Some opponents insist that Fowler's pitchers are using more than sunflower seeds. Oakland, it has been widely charged, has become the home of the spitball. Fowler insists that he merely teaches his charges to throw the "dry spitter," a sinker that behaves just like the genuine article. Whatever it is, the A's pitchers do not yield threatening clouts very often. When they do, the fleetest outfield in baseball (and one of the heaviest-hitting) goes to work. Leftfielder Rickey Henderson (.348, 19 runs scored and ten steals), Centerfielder Dwayne Murphy (.280, 20 RBIs) and Rightfielder Tony...
...whose career was overshadowed by that of his Hall of Fame brother "Dizzy," he compiled a lifetime record of 50-34 with an earned-run average of 3.75. Frankie Frisch, who was the Cardinals' second baseman and manager in 1934, once said that Daffy threw the "damndest, heaviest sinker you ever saw. When a batter hit one of those pitches, his hands stung as painfully in July as if he'd swung an icicle in December...