Word: innings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strike Three!" The Castro adulation grew. Appearing one night to accept a gift machete and to toss an inning of exhibition baseball for an army team, Castro marched to the mound in high spirits. A onetime sub at the University of Havana, he unleashed a wild fast ball, got a friendly reading from the umpire. With the count at 3 and 2, Fidel whipped a high, hard one over the batter's head. "Strike three!" the umpire said...
...Market Street intersections were ablare with car radios tuned to "the game.'' Even at Oklahoma! the playgoers showed up with transistor sets, listening with earplugs, and at nearby San Quentin the warden postponed the lights-out of 11:15 p.m. until the Giants had won an extra-inning game. It was the same in Los Angeles, 350 miles to the southeast. At a rocket test site, an engineer could barely wait for the blast of an Atlas engine to subside before asking: "What's the inning and the score?" And at the Los Angeles Athletic Club, some...
...vast Memorial Stadium, Cleveland Outfielder Rocco Domenico Colavito stepped out of a batting slump and into the record books with four mighty swings of his 33-oz. bat. His fourth straight homer, a long blast into the left-field bleachers some 410 ft. away, came in the ninth inning off Baltimore Orioles Reliefer Ernie Johnson, who had not allowed a homer all season. What was more, Colavito brought off his feat in a park rated the toughest in the league for home-run hitters-no team has ever hit more than three home runs there in a single game...
...varsity jumped away to a 2-0 lead in the very first inning. Al Martin was hit by a pitch and went to third when an Eli infielder muffed Chet Boulris' pop-fly. Rodgers then fetched both men home with a sharp single to left...
...single, a sacrifice, and another Yale error made it 3-0 in the fourth, and an inning later came Balboni's home run. A hit batsman, a single, and an error preceeded his mighty swat down the left-field line...