Word: sloppiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seats is still not complete, and right up until game time Expo General Manager Jim Fanning and a squad of ushers were frantically setting up 6,000 folding chairs. They should have given one to the catchers. Mired in muck up to their ankles, their position was the sloppiest on a field that had been turned into a lumpy, bumpy pasture by the spring thaw. During the day the pitcher's mound sank by a good five inches. Expo Catcher Bateman only half kiddingly suggested that he and the pitchers "wear elevator shoes to stay above ground...
...pennant since 1946, when Ted Williams hit .342, six other players batted over .300, and Pitchers Tex Hughson, Dave Ferriss and Mickey Harris combined to win 62 games. Last year the Red Sox ranked last in the American League in pitching and fielding, and second sloppiest in stranding base runners and grounding into double plays. The only thing that saved them from the cellar was the New York Yankees-by the slim margin of half a game...
Harvard played one of its slowest and sloppiest hockey games of the season last night, and was rewarded with a 3-1 loss to Northeastern in the consolation game of the Beanpot Tournament at Boston Garden...
...sloppiest exhibitions of offensive football at Harvard in recent years, the Crimson fumbled ten times, dropped almost as many passes, and did every possible thing wrong except lose...
pectators saw some of the sloppiest and some of the slickest varsity lacrosse of the season in the Crimson's to 9 victory over Dartmouth Saturday. Coach Bruce Munro's stickmen passed ground balls, dropped good passes, and threw poor ones all afternoon. But they were good when they had to be and came roaring back on four different occasions to take the lead and eventually the ball game...