Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plate as if to the block, eyes atremble with tears, to face Harry Murphy ("Murphy the Great") and his submarine ball. Murph awes even his catcher, Lyle Adcock, 10. "We don't have any signals," admits Lyle. "All I do is hope he doesn't throw too hard and that I can catch it." Playing it safe, Lyle wears a pair of boots under his shin guards to absorb the force of any errant fastball. Not only did Murph win all eight of his games of five innings each, but he struck out 108 to account...
...Capitol dome. Even lowly Kansas City won eleven in a row for the season's longest string, had the fans overflowing Municipal Stadium (capacity: 30,611) and sitting on the grass in leftfield. And when a slight, cold-eyed relief pitcher named Elroy Face (15-0) begins to throw his forkball, Pittsburgh can beat the world...
...Rocco Colavito, a sturdy, hard-working iceman, and Angelina Spodafino. Rocco and Angelina came separately to the U.S. in the early '20s from Bari, Italy, met and married in New York City. Rocky's boyhood heroes were his big brothers, Dominick and Vito, who taught him to throw and hit on the paved playing field of Public School...
...year Rocky tied a major-league record by hitting four consecutive home runs in a single game, and, what was more impressive, did it in the toughest stadium in the league-Baltimore's massive Memorial Stadium. Even so. Rocky is far from being a polished ballplayer. His powerful throwing arm-he has one measured throw of 436 ft.-can be wildly inaccurate. At the plate Rocky will murder a baseball between his belt and knees, but still has trouble solving fast balls tight and high and sliders that break away, still tries to kill the ball instead of just...
...Dakotas of the '80s, and buried himself in a remote corner of Norway to write novels (Growth of the Soil, Pan, Hunger) of great depth and power. Then, old and full of honors, including the 1920 Nobel Prize, Knut Hamsun told his countrymen when the Nazis invaded Norway: "Throw away your rifles. The Germans are fighting for us, and now are crushing England's tyranny over us and all neutrals...