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Teller led Harvard at the start of the extended road trip. She batted .562 in the Cal State-Hayward tournament and was named to the all-tournament team. Abeles had the hot bat in the final six games of the spring break trip, batting .444 and stroking her first dinger of the season...
Keck plated Carey with a sacrifice fly in the third, and Larocque drove in Mager and Huling with a mammoth two-run double to right in the next at-bat...
Keck plated Carey with a sacrifice fly in thethird, and Larocque drove in Mager and Huling witha mammoth two-run double to right in the nextat-bat...
Then, unexpectedly, he struck out when he proposed an implausible, three-chain helix for DNA. Several months later, in Cambridge, England, Francis Crick and I, apprehensive that Linus might bat again, found the double helix. Why Linus failed to hit this home run will never be known. His wife Ava Helen is said to have told Linus that he should have worked harder. I believe the decade following World War II may have had too many agonizing moments for the Pauling family...
...streak a fluke? Not if you go back to 1933, when the 18-year-old DiMaggio, playing in the extremely competitive Pacific Coast League, hit safely in 61 straight games. Or look past that unfortunate day in Cleveland when third baseman Ken Keltner smothered two torpedoes off DiMaggio's bat and ended the 1941 run: the next day DiMaggio began to unspool another, 16-game streak. Hitting safely in 56 straight games is a miracle; hitting safely in 72 out of 73 is an expression of consistent mastery...