Word: star
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...star play of the game was made by Foster at third base, when in the eighth inning he stopped a line drive and retired the St. George's man at first...
Then the fatal inning came and nine journalists walked across the end of all travels. The muckers stopped their yap, the aesthetic authors vanished to their--verse, the fire-crackers were put under the bench. The lead was never overcome, the CRIMSON's star twirler toyed with the heart-sick jokers, and our much-beloved, versatile, admiring, fellow-slingers of the ink bit the dust...
...Brown '10, president of the class, presided and introduced the speakers, the first of whom was H. Foster, Jr., '07, who has coached the nine. Foster outlined the progress of the baseball team since it was first called out. He said that although the team was not composed of star players, it was steady and reliable and had a good battery with two excellent pitchers. It has won all of its ten games, and there is no reason why it should not win tomorrow...
Dartmouth has an exceptionally fast team this spring and several star pitchers. Their games thus far have shown them to be one of the most formidable college teams of the season. Coach Donovan expects to have both Leonard and Briggs in shape for Saturday's game; but no chances will be taken with either of them. Hartford will probably start the game in the box, with Captain Skillen pitching for Dartmouth...
...baseball columns of the daily papers, this article shows the amazing rapidity of growth possible in the technical language of a popular sport. Start who knock holes in batting averages are hold friends; a "comer" who "has a long way to come" and even the divagations of a star, who, though assured that he "cannot be-touched," nevertheless "worries himself wild," and toward the middle of the game "goes up in the air and stays there," are understandable; but those conditions at Yale that do not favor a pitcher's arm, give then uninitiated cause for meditation...