Word: ace
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...onetime ace of the Reds' pitching staff, who ended his career with California...
This season, the pitching staff is more balances and Nahieian has the enviable task of choosing among excellent hurlet, Marchese, the staff ace, and Musselman, who pitched nine great innings against Maine at the regionals last year, will surely be among the starters, Presz, who has never lost a game at Harvard, will probably be throwing on weekends as well...
Whoever doesn't start will be available for relief, with George Sorbara playing bullpen ace, and Doug Sutton right behind...
After losing to Stanford by a score of 8-1, Harvard headed south-without its ace-to take on Santa Barbara and Long Beach in what shaped up as two even contests...
...noted for its trenchant, sometimes biting features. U.S. News & World Report, by contrast, has been a sober, conservative weekly that prides itself on a straightforward approach to events. But to Mortimer Zuckerman, the wealthy real estate investor who bought the magazine last June for $182 million, Coffey is "an ace and a treasure-house of ideas." Last week Zuckerman named Coffey, 38, as the new editor of U.S. News, replacing Marvin Stone, 61, who is retiring after 25 years...