Word: throwings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Other kids experimented with a slider, which usually just meant they were throwing sidearm, or imagined they could throw a splitter if they could...just...fit their fingers around the ball, or proclaimed “Yo, did you see the movement on that knuckleball!” And there were plenty of curveball dilettantes...
...wanted to learn how to throw a curveball. Uncle Charlie, the deuce, number two, the hook. It goes by many names but is singular in its appeal—the prettiest pitch in baseball, with its tantalizing slowness and sharp downward break...
...amounts to a league ERA of only 0.73, and his overall ERA of 3.48 ranks fourth in the Ivies, but much of that was compiled against powerful non-conference sqauds like Florida and Boston College. Last weekend, Haviland helped the Crimson pull out a key win against Dartmouth by throwing ten innings of one-run ball. Against Princeton earlier this year, Haviland shut down the Tigers, allowing only one run over seven innings.“Haviland has been unbelievable this year,” senior captain Morgan Brown said. “He’s been amazingly consistent...
...corners, sophomore third baseman Steffan Wilson crushed a 1-0 fastball from Huskies closer Matt Morizio through the now-driving rain into deep centerfield. The ball bounced up against the 435-foot mark on the wall as the centerfielder slipped in pursuit, and Northeastern bungled the relay throw, allowing Wilson to chug all the way around for an inside-the-park, go-ahead three-run homer. “It’s good to see the team fight back like that,” captain Morgan Brown said. “Steffan...
...Panelists also spoke about the nature of the U.S. military and the perceived difficulty in disentangling the military from politics. “At the ground level, it doesn’t matter,” said Harvard Extension School student Randall Edmonston. “You have to throw out your own personal beliefs—separate your politics from your mission.” Many of the panelists said officers should stay above the political fray. “I believe the military should be an apolitical institution,” Brooks said. “We?...