Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better college baseball teams in the East, Holy Cross, visits Soldiers Field today for a 3:45 p.m. game with Harvard. Barry Turner will pitch for the Crimson...
Matty Formon, the six-five basketball player who has already beaten Harvard once this season, will pitch again today. He pitched a three-hit 6 to 0 shutout against Dartmouth...
Cleo O'Donnell returns to Soldiers Field at 3:45 p.m. today as coach of the Curry College baseball team. Captain Jack Bonelan will pitch for the freshman nine...
...league manager should be able to take it. He dished it out. He spat in Durocher's direction and said: "Here, Leo, this is for you." As five hapless Giant pitchers were mauled, he cried at the Giant boss: "Why don't you go in and pitch yourself, you monkey?" Leo also said he heard Fan Boysen reviling his wife, Cinemactress Laraine Day. In the ninth inning, Leo stepped out of the dugout, stared at his heckler and ducked back...
...Pitch. That was about as far as hot-tempered, brawling Leo Durocher dared to go, whatever the provocation. Baseball's $50,000-a-year Commissioner "Happy" Chandler already had two strikes on The Lip for past crimes and misdemeanors; another brawl would be strike three and out. In 1947, Chandler had suspended Durocher for the season for "conduct detrimental to baseball." Twice recently he had disciplined Lippy for minor offenses: for hiring Coach Fred Fitzsimmons when Fred's old club wasn't looking, and for a pre-season row with an umpire...