Word: southpaws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Which is highly developed, but far short of the form once shown by Diamond Comedian Nick Altrock. In a single game (1901), Southpaw Altrock walked eight batters, picked seven of them off first base...
Outside Boston, fans and sport columnists, who naturally go for the personalities, have scarcely noticed steady, workmanlike Southpaw Spahn. In Boston, they have not even thought up a nickname that stuck (his Braves mates call him "The Nose"). Except for his high-heeled delivery (see cut) and his knack of nipping runners off first base,* there was not much out of the way about shy, Buffalo-born Warren Spahn. In every baseball manager's book, young left-hander pitchers are automatically listed as eccentric. Not so Spahn. He has what few southpaws have ever shown in their first full...
Johnny Hansen, ace Freshman southpaw, racked up his fourth straight win yesterday as he shut out Andover 3 to 0, raising to 36 the total of innings he has pitched without giving up an earned run. The Jayvees, afflicted with fielding weakness and pitching wildness, dropped a 4 to 1 decision to the New Hampshire juniors here...
...week's end, the President drove through cheering crowds to throw out the first ball at the postponed Senators-Yankees baseball opener. To the consternation of newsmen who had billed him as a southpaw, Harry Truman first tossed out a blooper with his right arm, obligingly threw another with his left for the cameramen. Then he settled back to sip a Coke in the bright spring sunlight, unexpectedly popped up half an inning early for the traditional seventh inning stretch. Final score: Yankees, 7; Senators...
...Warmed up his southpaw pitching arm to toss out the first ball of the 1947 baseball season, had to take a raincheck when the Senators-Yankees opener was called because of steady showers...