Word: southpaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southpaw starter Larry Melfa and reliefer Paul Thornton combined to give the Crimson its first shutout of the 1965 season. Melfa, who has taken his lumps in prior appearances on the mound, was razor-sharp yesterday. In seven innings he yielded seven hits, struck out eight batters, and walked none. Thornton entered the game in the eighth inning and put on the finishing touches...
...lincup is not particularly awesome. Besides Ford and stottlemyre, the other New York starting pitchers are Jim Bouton (18-13) and Al Downing (13-8). Bouton will have a good season, but Downing has always been wild and erratic. Although he led the league in strikeouts last year, the southpaw fastballer walked 120 men in 244 innings. The New York bullpen is totally inadequate, with nonentities like Pete Mikkelson, Hal Reniff, and Stan Williams...
...World Series time, the coldness and discomfort that New York Yankee Southpaw Whitey Ford had often felt in his left hand became a strength-robbing cramp afflicting his whole arm. But not until after the second game when he even had trouble shaving did Ford seek medical help from Dr. Martin L. Schulman of Long Island Jewish Hospital. The diagnosis: Pitcher Ford had an apparently complete blockage of the axillary artery, which carries blood through the shoulder toward the fingertips...
...Rossi got credit for the victory. Lee Sargent pitched the last two inning when Del Rossi was pulled out because he developed a blister on one of his pitching fingers. Coach Norm Shepard is saving the ace southpaw for Wednesday's game against Yale...
Coach Norm Shepard will probably start Lee Sargent today. The converted third baseman was a 1-0 record this season and a respectable 0.75 earned run average. Shepard is saving ace southpaw Paul Del Rossi for tomorrow's contest against Eastern League powerhouse Brown...