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When the national tax office released its latest annual figures on Japan's highest income earners (yes, such matters are made public), the top sports figure was Tatsunori Kara, 25, the star third baseman for the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants, who makes $720,000 from his baseball salary and commercial endorsements. Hara has attained a status level that outstrips his statistics, though these are not unimpressive. He is currently hitting .300 and is second in home runs in the Central League with 19, after 76 games. How does Hara think his team might fare in the U.S. big leagues...
...pitch five shutouts and win 17 games. Now his record is 10-7 with an earned run average of 2.54, but it is misleading to consider him the Blue Jays' only star. Jim Clancy and Luis Leal have been formidable pitchers, and the able hitters include First Baseman Willie Upshaw, Outfielder Lloyd Moseby and Cliff Johnson, the old designated hitter, whose varied sojourns included a memorable pause with the New York Yankees...
...three weeks into the softball season, Horne moved from the gym to the diamond, where she quickly continued the excellence she had demonstrated her two previous years as the Crimson's third baseman...
Through it all, however, the talented All-Ivy third baseman has taken it in stride. "I've been able to do things here that I wouldn't have been able to do anywhere else," she says, explaining the less talented squads have meant more playing time...
...half of the first; the Crimson came back with a score in the bottom half. Maine tallied once in the second; Harvard again tied the score. It was 3-3 after seven, and it looked like the Crimson might survive another day. But Black Bear third baseman Bill Reynolds' solo shot in the eighth was just too much. Harvard went hitless the final two innings...