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...best squad ever - the proud Tokyo Yomiuri Giants, who were then in the process of winning nine consecutive Japan Championships. The team was powered by Sadaharu Oh, the man who would go on to break Hank Aaron's lifetime home-run record, and its charismatic, clutch-hitting third baseman Shigeo Nagashima. Los Angeles Dodger owner Walter O'Malley was so impressed with Nagashima that he tried to buy his contract, but the Giants' aging founder Matsutaro Shoriki turned the offer down flat. The quality of Japanese baseball, once considered laughably bad, had advanced so much in the postwar years...
...Dartmouth junior first baseman Mike Mileusnic doubled into the right-field gap to put a runner in scoring position. Senior third baseman Brian Nickerson followed up with a laser-beam shot over second baseman Faiz Shakir's glove to tie the game at 2-2. Nickerson, who ended up with a double on the play, had proved himself on Saturday to be a clutch performer. With two-outs in the eighth inning, trailing 5-2 in Saturday's second game, Nickerson hit a three-run shot over the fence in left field to tie the ballgame. Coach Walsh knew that...
...tenth, Dartmouth finally got to Birtwell. With one-out, Derek Draper laid down a surprise bunt that rolled along the third base line, remaining in fair territory. Draper had already reached first base by the time Harvard third-baseman Nick Carter unhappily scooped up the no-longer-rolling baseball. Josh Cushman pinch ran for Draper and scored on junior shortstop Matt Klentak's double to right-center. Klentak scored an insurance-run on sophomore Jason Dacosta's base-hit to right...
...Crimson showed heart and determination by responding with seven runs of its own in the following half inning. Three straight singles loaded the bases for junior shortstop Mark Mager, who forced in a run to make it 11-2. After junior first baseman Josh San Salvador scored on a wild pitch, back to back doubles by Carter and Hendricks cut Dartmouth's lead to six, 11-5. Shakir, junior Javy Lopez, and San Salvador followed with three straight singles, which scored three more runs. Harvard was back in the ballgame, down by only three...
...Twice this weekend, Dartmouth third baseman Brian Nickerson strode to the plate in the late innings with the game on the line...