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...baseball, junior first baseman Mark Bingham finished the year as the team's leading hitter, at .403. Bingham also led the Crimson in runs batted in with 36, four short of the Harvard record...
...started out, the Crimson's slugging clinic was necessary. B.C. jumped to a 4-0 lead in the blink of an eye when Harvard starter Rob Alevizos lost his concentration in the second inning, walking three straight batters before serving up a juicy outside fastball to weak-hitting second baseman Chuck Mitchell. Mitchell launched an arching parabola to deep right field that a sympathetic gust of wind carried over the fence for a home run and an instant four-run lead...
...bats of both teams fell silent until late in the contest when Harvard managed the only tally of the first five innings as Bobby Kelley scored from second base after Mark Bingham's topper was mishandled by the first baseman in the third...
Keyte--who pitched well, considering the gusting winds--wen to the showers, in the eighth when Ronnie Perry singled, advanced to second on a sacrifice by the cleanup hitter, and scored when first baseman Bingham fielded a grounder cleanly but threw past Keyte covering first. Steward struck out slugger Rick Allen to end the inning and keep Harvard within three...
Tyng was a rather frail, sleepy-eyed fellow, who in later pictures is shown sporting Silas Marner sideburns. He was already a senior in 1877, having played his three previous years as a third baseman and outfielder. Tyng, however, made his reputation as a catcher and continued to catch for two more years while enrolled in the Law School. Tyng therefore played for the Crimson nine, or Magenta as it was known in those days, for six years, a record only equaled by W.H. Coolidge...