Word: slider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dickson, less rugged than most pitchers, relies on a rich assortment of what baseballers call "stuff." He throws six types of pitches (fast ball, curve, slider, knuckler, sinker and screw ball). Says he: "Sometimes early in a game, some of them aren't working so well. So I drop the bad ones and stick with the ones that will do me the most good." All of them were working against the Yankees that...
...three participants in the second piece were all good. John Mannick was resonant as the slider, Elcanor Milliard good-looking and as convincing as possible as Dynamene, and Patricia Troxell very amusing in the part of the alternately keening and complaining servant...
...skied before, you won't find water-skiing hard to learn. In fact, only a few major differences present themselves to the student surface-slider who has had previous experience on the mountainsides. Instead of leaning forward with your knees bent and your weight toward the ski tips, you keep your weight behind your harnesses and stand as nearly straight as possible...
...flies. For this great performance, he rated about 75% of the credit. The other 25% went to lean-jawed, iron-man Catcher Frank Hayes, who outguessed the Yankee hitters all afternoon. When they expected the fast one, Hayes signaled for Feller's equally effective curve, or his new slider (a pitch that begins fading away from a right-handed hitter halfway down the alley). Said Feller: "I didn't shake off his signals once...
Unless the fates have decided otherwise, the Crimson will prevail this afternoon in the first intercollegiate fall regatta of Tom Bolles' Harvard career when three shells from Newell, one from M.I.T., B.U., and Dartmouth slider across the starting line of the Henley distance on the Basin at 4:30 o'clock...