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...have precious little flexibility in their budgets. They have drawn their personal average savings rate down to zero?far below the 9.5% average during the two oil shocks of the 1970s and the 7% rate during the shock just prior to the Gulf War in 1991. Today, the only backstop for most consumers is the transitory wealth created by America's increasingly precarious housing bubble...
Crimson captain Schuyler Mann, who was named to the New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association’s First Team, will man the backstop for New England’s Division I All-Stars...
...subsequent Brunnig offering slipped between Mann’s legs and to the backstop, advancing the baserunners to second and third, setting up John Simone’s sacrifice fly to once again level the score...
...initially declared the failed suicide squeeze attempt to be a foul ball, Walsh jogged out of the dugout to argue the call. The two umpires then conversed for several minutes before overturning the initial ruling and sending Vance to first base on catcher’s interference by Yale backstop Eric Rasmussen...
Perhaps it’s appropriate that Schuyler Mann carry the torch for Harvard catchers—launched by James Tyng, the Crimson backstop who wore the world’s first catcher’s mask...