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...call to "Play ball!," the surest and happiest sign of spring, has sounded once again. The crack of the bat has replaced the clack of the auctioneer's gavel selling off free-agent flesh. Players safe in their tax shelters now worry only about being safe at first, and owners prick their ears for the sweetest music they know, the clatter of turnstiles. The baseball season has begun...
...wearing a huge green cowboy hat made out of polystyrene and a baseball uniform with the message "SUPPORT THE JIMMY FUND" weaves through the crowd, swinging an inflated plastic bat and shaking hands...
Going into the bottom of the seventh, the score stood at 11-4, but a two-run homer by Horne, a Holpuch triple, and a single by first sacker Mariene Schools and a sacrifice fly off the bat of Betty Ippolito produced four runs before the Bears recorded the final out of the game...
...come together to form armed vigilante groups. Israel Green, 55, a retired postal worker, set up one such patrol three weeks ago when rumors started circulating that Techwood Homes, a downtown project of over 1,200 apartments, would be next on the killer's agenda. Techwood's "bat patrol" consists of about 50 members ranging in age from 13 to 55, half of whom are women. Most of the patrollers have armed themselves with baseball bats, though some have carried guns. "The patrol is a legal activity and within the confines of the law," said Chimurenga Jenga...
...first inning. After left fielder Paul Scheper led off with a strikeout, Danny Bowles and freshman centerfielder Bruce Weller hit back to back singles. Cleanup hitter Brad Bauer then slapped a Gibson delivery over the fence for a 3-0 Harvard lead. Bauer was the only big bat for the Crimson all afternoon, adding a single and a double to his first inning round tripper to go three-for-five...