Word: pitchers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First Game. People who had figured that 35-year-old Spitballer Howard Ehmke would work in the series only if every other Philadelphia pitcher was sick or knocked out of the box, did not reckon on an odd understanding between Ehmke and Manager Connie Mack. Before the regular season ended Manager Mack sent Ehmke to scout the Cubs. He told a friend in confidence that though Ehmke had needed relief in each of the only two games he won for the Athletics this year, he would let him start if Ehmke said he wanted to. "He has one good...
Second Game. Outfielder Jimmy Foxx, the youngest Philadelphian, knocked a wild pitch for a home-run, his second of the series, with two friends on base. In the fourth inning the Athletics scored three times more and Manager McCarthy of Chicago took out Malone, one of his best pitchers. With one out, the bases filled, and the infield playing close so as to be able to field a grounder home, Cub Short-stop English boneheaded to second. Pitcher Earnshaw of Philadelphia tired but his successor, muscular Robert Moses Grove, proved that a good left-handed pitcher can do better than...
Some names have come down to us from the history of these eventful and stirring times, names baptized in the blood of Liberty. The famous General Putnam built a set of bastions there in 1777. Molly Pitcher took a shot with her husband's cannon at advancing British regulars. Thaddeus Kosciusko organized and perfected the fortification in 1778. A great iron chain was forged and stretched across the river on log floats. Mad Anthony Wayne defended its position. Baron Steuben drilled our troops; Washington lived there...
...whom played on last year's Freshman team are also out for football. J. A. Prior '29 and G. E. Donaghy '29, first and third basemen respectively, have been lost through graduation, as well as A. G. Whitney '29, left-fielder, and Howard Whitmore Jr. '29, pitcher...
...famed oldtime National League baseball pitcher (Brooklyn, New York) was successfully operated on in a Brooklyn hospital, for an intestinal disorder. He got his nickname in 1904, when he helped the New York "Giants" win a pennant by pitching and winning three "doubleheaders" (two-games-in-one-day) in close succession...