Sentences with phrase «old major league pitcher»
It was presented at home plate by the old major league pitcher, Walter (Duster) Mails, now with the Giants» front office.
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As always, Angell is mainly concerned with major league players, but there are some rewarding side trips, notably to the playing fields of Yale in the company of Smokey Joe Wood, the 91 - year - old former Yale coach who won 34 games as a Red Sox pitcher in 1912, and to the big league locker rooms (or the corridors just outside them) with several bright female reporters who were trying to breach that journalistic barrier in 1979.
THE PRIDES OF THE WAYWARD BUSES When Atlanta pitcher Zane Smith couldn't make his scheduled Aug. 5 start in San Diego, 29 - year - old Cliff Speck and 28 - year - old Ed Olwine — who between them had 18 full minor league seasons and 17 major league appearances — combined to beat the Padres 3 - 2 for the first victory and save of their respective careers.