Word: stoppering
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Sophomore Bob Lincoln, the potential stopper of the still obscure Harvard pitching staff, started the game and pitched three creditable innings before Brown hitters and Harvard fielders combined for three runs in the fourth two more in the fifth...
Baseball coach Norm Shepard will be looking for a pitcher today when his hard-hitting nine travels west for a 3 p.m. contest at Springfield College. The Crimson lineup is well-set down to the number one pinch hitter, but Shepard has yet to find a stopper or any clear order among his seven hurlers...
...medication or the ice, but something has certainly improved Sandy's hitting. Until this season, he was known by teammates as "the rally stopper" because he was so hopeless at the plate. His lifetime average was a minuscule .083. This season his average has risen to an almost respectable .236, and his batting has either driven in or set up the winning runs in two of the last three games he pitched. More pitchers should have arthritis like that...
...first compounded by Jack Paar, and when Paar decided to call it quits three years ago, he pointed to Carson as "the one man who could or should replace me." For Carson, it was a tough assignment. Paar's emotionalism had made the show the biggest sleep-stopper since caffeine. By contrast, Carson came on like pure Sanka. But soon his low-key, affable humor began to prove addictive. Paar generated new interest, but Carson is watched...
...Braves are also the same on the mound, unfortunately, with only Tony Cloninger (19-14) and Denny Lemaster (14-11) as reliable starters. Dan Osinski, acquired from the Angels, is expected to blossom into the bullpen "stopper" the Braves desperately need, but Osinski never did so in the American League...