Word: batted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from cocaine--with the possible exception of the players. By all reports, enough of them are using coke to interest grand juries and alarm the commissioner. But since drug testing of major leaguers, as negotiated by their union, is a largely voluntary matter, Ueberroth is cracking down on the bat boys, secretaries, office clerks, scouts, managers (Pete Rose included?), owners--and commissioners--in a gesture that is undeniably noble, probably futile and more than faintly Olympian. Sentimental waves that start in sport and extend to the country must be considered his specialty...
Leverett clinched the victory in the next at-bat, K.C. Smith punched one-out single through a drawn in Winthrop infield, scoring Leon Oldenburg...
Irisha Brown singled for Harvard, Lisa Rowning followed with a walk, Gerri Rubin chipped in with another single, and Brown scored on a fielder's choice off the bat of Wilson...
EVERY RED-BLOODED and not-so-red-blooded American boy is brought up to hate the Germany of World War II. From Superman comic books to John Wayne movies to "games" of war (you remember--running around with a whiffle bat pretending it was a submachine gun), the German is always the had guy and the American is always the good one. World War II really satisfies the American need to classify things in terms of black and white because, unlike most wars, it really was black and white No one can really deny that the Nazis were evil, aggressive...
Harvard's 12 victories, however, have not come easily. Yesterday's game was the fourth in which the Crimson has come back in its final at-bat to notch...