Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When he arrived at the Cardinals' training camp in Bradenton. Fla. last year, Pitcher Dean astounded reporters by promising that he and his Brother Paul would win 45 games. They won 49. This season, Pitcher Dean was a shade more circumspect. Said he: "I hope they let me pitch the ones they really want to win but you see I'm a regular star today. Frankie Frisch won't rely on me as much this summer as he did last year. I can't do the managing and pitching all at once. . . . Frankie thinks...
Stones; Shoes; Strikes. Jerome Herman Dean was born in Holdenville, Okla. in 1911. His father was an impoverished junkman and cotton picker. His mother died when he was 4. Jerome Dean began pitching to his brother, two years his junior, with a ball made out of yarn wrapped around a stone. He threw stones at squirrels until his aim was deadly. By the time he was 12, he was invited to pitch for the baseball team of a nearby high school which, because he had left grammar school after the fourth grade, he was too ignorant to attend...
...catches up on her reading by picking last evening's newspapers out of the wastebasket each morning and perusing the more enticing headlines by whatever light is apt to penetrate that dingy grotto. The morning after the peace demonstration William Randolph Hearst succeeded in rousing her to a high pitch of excitement with accounts of subversive, un-American, and Marxist activities in our institutions of learning. Puzzled and alarmed she buttonholed a Holworthyite on his way to class with the bland question, "Mr. Burlingthwarp, what's a Commamist?" Disentangling politic 1 philosophies with an unprofessional mind, the young man endeavored...
...Georgetown tilt Ingalls pitched for the whole nine frames and up until the last of the eighth it looked as if he would be able to pitch a hitless, as well as a scoreless game, but Nolan squeezed one past Shean, playing second, and two errors and another dribble past Ingalls put two men on bases with two out in Georgetown's half of the ninth. Ingalls then here down and the game ended with a well-earned 5-0 victory...
...grandeur, and she approaches her stories with conscious dignity. And in her majestic entrances and exits she rarely catches her foot in the mat. But the grandness of her manner, which was increasingly impressive in The Time of Man and The Great Meadow, has now reached such a pitch that readers cannot hope to come near her without taking off their workaday shoes and donning reverential slippers. Many a reader will consider life too short for such sartorial efforts; but for those who do not, Author Roberts has some solemn symbolism to show...