Word: balle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wrecking Ball. After a series of sexual skirmishes, Joe finds himself smack in the middle of the country he left: despair. As he wanders, he comes upon Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman). A septic, crippled thief, Rizzo lives, like his nicknamesake, in the upper reaches of a condemned building, waiting for the wrecking ball. In a sense it has already arrived. Though he nourishes fantasies of a future in Miami, Ratso is too frail to last the winter. With a final galvanic reach for life, he extends a greasy hand -and Joe Buck takes...
After the wretched exhibition of ball playing of last Saturday the game which the nine put up yesterday was a surprise and relief to everyone. It showed that when forced to it Harvard can play good ball. For the most part the fielding was clean and brisk and the batting was sharp and timely. Highlands pitched a good cool game, allowing but three men bases on balls and keeping Princeton down to seven scattered hits. His base running in the fifth inning was one of the features of the game. Scannell was a little unsteady at times, muffing two third...
...Princeton, Otto at first and Brooks at second played the best ball...
Meanwhile Harvard had made nine runs. In the first inning Whittemore hit safely, reached second on an error by Altman, who made a wild throw of Cook's hit, and got third on a passed ball. Dickinson fouled out to Payne. Scannell hit to short, who threw Whittemore out at the plate; then Wiggin flied out to shortstop...
Winslow started off the fifth by a base on balls, reached third on two passed balls and came home on Highland's hit. O'Malley fouled out and Highlands scored. Whittemore got third on a passed ball and come home on Cook's hit. No more runs were made in this inning or the next and with the 9 to 1 against them Princeton came to the bat in the seventh...