Word: tossings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winning his event, Reed moved up from the last qualifying spot. He had only been able to toss the hammer 153 feet, 8 1/4 inches on Friday...
Obviously, it was too good to last; in another month, opposing pitchers would know what to deal the upstarts to cool off their hitting. But by that time, Manager Stengel might be able to toss in DiMaggio and Keller. Last week, just eleven days after the season opened, "Old Case" announced: "This may be just a swallow. . . but I'm going to win the pennant...
Everything hangs on Estin because he is the best feeder on the attack which has two good creasemen, Dick Bezanson and Rick Hudner. Without Estin behind the cage to toss his quick, accurate passes, Bezanson and Hudner lose a great deal of their effectiveness. Lew Soule, the fourth member of the very fine attack, is taking a Law School exam at game time...
Robinson and Thompson have won temporarily perhaps, the right to play when Donelan pitches. When Jack moves out to left field between mound appearances, however, it will still be a toss-up as to which of the two men plays right...
From there on, Webb keeps himself and the audience highly entertained. He wears his freshman cap with the same deadpan elegance he gives to his cane and his well-draped suit. In his job as hasher, he can toss up crepes Belvedere or lecture the young women of the sorority on table manners. At the piano in the sorority parlor, he can play Beethoven or boogie, but he prefers the works of Belvedere. His biggest, and perhaps funniest, moment comes at the Freshman-Sophomore track-meet when he lays aside his dog-eared book, rolls his well-creased trousers above...