Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disillusioning Revelations. Baltimoreans have mixed feelings about the Block's gradual demise. City Council President William D. Schaefer has supported its continuance. But Police Commissioner Donald Pomerleau claims to have dissuaded Schaefer. "I told him," says Pomerleau, "that there is the most base, gross conduct over there and there is no place for the Block anywhere in the city of Baltimore." Investigations of organized crime in the city have uncovered a $10 million-a-year numbers empire operating out of the Block and linked several club owners to nationwide betting syndicates. These revelations have disillusioned many Baltimoreans...
...sets a lid on the upward rushing blue genie. Helen Frankenthaler is not interested in emotions for their own sake. Despite the modernity of her style, she is an heiress to a tradition that reaches back beyond Pollock; she uses themes as a kind of reality on which to base an esthetic experience. Her ambition-and she succeeds in it with a memorable frequency-is to marry inner joy and outer discipline in a work...
Only Dorwart returns this year, but Coach Park can rely on a batting squadron led by captain John Ignacio. Ignacio was outstanding last season in his first year at first base. He hit .303, led the team with 17 RBIs, and had three home runs...
Sophomore Pete Bernhard replaces Ignacio at first base. Coach Park has picked Bernhard as lead-off batter because he has excellent speed. Chico Garcia, a star of last year's Yardling team, probably will start at second base, but junior Bill Cherry is a serious contender for the spot...
...about third base is that we have a real wing-ding battle," Coach Park commented. John Ballantyne has worked extremely hard and has won the initial starting position. But another sophomore star, Dan DeMichele, might replace him. DeMichele joined the team late because of the hockey season, and he has improved rapidly. If he passes Ballantyne, Harvard will have an all-sophomore infield...