Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bailey: "Hell, he changed me all the way around. He taught me more the one year I was sitting on the bench than I learned in my whole life; situations, how to go, what to do. He taught me how to get the ball away quicker in a throw, how to move easier on defense. I was probably the world's worst fly ball catcher. He taught me how to get out and get under...
...Baseball," Birdie told his men, "is exactly what Branch Rickey said it was: 'A race between a man and a ball.' Baseball is a game of inches. A guy catches the ball on the tip of his glove, a batter tops a ball and beats a throw to first. Or a fellow gets up in the ninth and comes through with a liner between third and short-he's a hero. Two inches the other way and he's a bum because he hit into a double play. The only thing...
...tough league, indeed, and a tight race, and the Reds are counting on Birdie to keep them rolling. "This is a game of momentum," says he. "If a ball club gets hot and they begin to roll, you can throw all the statistics in the world right out the window...
Remedy for Consumption. James sent Coke to the Tower of London, from which he was released primarily because his imprisonment weakened the prestige of the Crown. "Throw this man where you will," growled James, "and he falls upon his legs." Within three years James was dead, Charles I on the throne-and three years after that, Coke was back in Commons to participate in what has been called "the crisis of Parliaments." Said one member: "We shall know by this if Parliaments live or die ... Men and brethren, what shall we do?" Up stood Coke, 76 and full of "sturdy...
...opposites ranged against each other across organized land masses of freedom and serfdom. In the reports out of Budapest, Panmunjom, Washington, the operative word was justice; the question welling up, the debate accumulating, the pressure contending, was about how to get justice, how to fortify it, how to throw light on it and extend...