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Harvard sorely missed the bat of sophomore first baseman Marc Hordon against the Crusaders. Hordon, who leads the team with his .361 average and 22 hits, broke his hand when he was hit by a pitch in the game against Cornell on April 7. The team hopes for his return for the next weekend’s Ivy match-up with Yale...
...First to bat is pension plans, with a bill sponsored by Reps. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Benjamin Cardin (D-Maryland) set to hit the House floor Thursday. It's no accident that this issue is getting first crack at re-regulation; any issue involving retirees also involves lots of voting seniors. But it's also no cinch that much good will get done...
Shakir says he prefers the top of the order to the bottom because it usually means an extra at-bat per game. Still, he points out that batting ninth has its advantages—like the luxury of being more aggressive at the plate...
Shakir may have been surprised—“I was the last guy on the bench for most of that year,” he says—but Walsh recognized a hot bat when he saw one. After earning a surprise start in the second game of a doubleheader against Yale that April, Shakir went on a late-season tear that raised his average...
Shakir rode that hot streak into the postseason. In that crucial at-bat against Princeton, he lofted the second pitch over the drawn-in infield for a two-run single, giving Harvard the lead—and the title...