Word: bullpen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cardinals, a skinny Italian kid named Tony Lazzeri stood at the plate, wrapping and unwrapping his clammy hands around his quivering bat. The Yankees were one run behind, the bases were loaded, two men were out. Facing the Yankee rookie was wily old Pete Alexander, just called from the bullpen. With 38,000 pairs of eyes focused on him Rookie Lazzeri, trying desperately to live up to his reputation as a slugger, went down swinging...
...pitchers of all time, Grover Cleveland ("Old Pete") Alexander, now 50, could review a career that reached its third inning in the 1926 World Series (between the Cardinals and Yankees) when, after a night of carousing in celebration of two victories for the Cardinals, he was called from the bullpen at the crucial point of the crucial game to pitch to Tony Lazzeri, with the bases full of Yankees. Lazzeri struck out. Alexander was the hero of the year. When, four years later, he stepped out of major-league baseball, sportswriters extolled Pitcher Alexander's 20 years of major...
...they could get up to investigate, a mob of 50 armed farmers burst in, ordered them to stay where they were. As sheriff and jailer sat abed looking sleepy-eyed into grim Henry County faces, part of the mob marched upstairs, broke into the jail. Going straight to the bullpen occupied by six cowering blackamoors, they broke into it with a crowbar. From it they dragged strapping 18-year-old Wes Johnson, itinerant Henry County farm laborer, who had been arrested day before for raping the young wife of a farmer at Tumbleton, 22 mi. away...
...fame brought him better fortune. Juan was a puny child, and his legs were never any good, but when he and his cronies play-acted as matadors he was acknowledged the best. It was dangerous play: they swam the Guadalquivir at night, climbed into a bullpen and played the bulls naked, using their shirts as matadors' capes. Banderillero Calderon took Belmonte under his wing, taught him everything he knew, made him walk every day to strengthen his feeble legs, carrying an iron rod. From the very beginning of his career Belmonte was frequently hurt: his bad legs made...
Back into the Senate bullpen President Hoover last week tossed the World Court.∙ Senators were astonished. The President asked for its consideration at this session "as soon as possible after the emergency relief and appropriation legislation has been disposed of." Then he invited in for luncheon Elder Statesman Elihu Root, who negotiated the formula for U. S. adherence to the Court, and Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, Mr. Root's legal disciple and political protege...