Word: warmups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months later, almost to the day, Juan Marichal stood on the mound in San Francisco's windswept Candlestick Park, took his eight regulation warmup tosses, and prepared to pitch his first game for the "parent club"-against the Philadelphia Phillies. Maybe Juan was prepared; but nobody else was-not for what followed. For the first 61 innings, not a single Phillie reached first base. After 7 innings, Marichal still had not given up a hit. At that point, Philadelphia Catcher Clay Dalrymple singled sharply to leftfield, and the spell was broken-barely. Juan shrugged, retired the next four Phillies...
Almost everything went off as exchanged in the sunny little warmup at M.I.T. yesterday afternoon as the Harvard baseball team drubbed the Engineers, 12-3. George Neville paced the Crimson's 19-hit attack with five singles and Bob Lincoln hurled six almost perfect innings before tiring...
Today's 4 p.m. game at M.I.T. has the air of a warmup for Wednesday's showdown here against Northeastern. And with Harvard riding a three game losing streak in which it has been outscored 26-7, a warmup is very much needed...
...been playing the ancient Oriental board game constantly since he was eight, now ranks as a fifth Dan professional (ninth Dan is highest) in his native Japan, where Go has been the national indoor game for as long as anybody can remember. Besides, this time was really only a warmup: later, in his three-week exhibition tour of the U.S., he will play 15 games simultaneously in Boston. It hardly mattered that he eventually lost two games while winning five and drawing two; he had conceded each of his honorable opponents a generous handicap, without which it would have been...
...tennis team plays Brown today at Soldiers Field in what should not be too much more than a warmup for the Penn match on Friday...