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...muscleman, Banks derives his deceptive power from a pair of outsize hands and wrists that allow him to whip the bat around at the last possible instant. Last season, while aging superstars like Mickey Mantle were going into slow fadeouts, Ernie knocked in 83 runs and belted 32 home runs, the most he had hit in six years. Says Durocher: "I wish I knew what kind of pills he takes. I'd like to feed them to some of my other players...
After the wretched exhibition of ball playing of last Saturday the game which the nine put up yesterday was a surprise and relief to everyone. It showed that when forced to it Harvard can play good ball. For the most part the fielding was clean and brisk and the batting was sharp and timely. Highlands pitched a good cool game, allowing but three men bases on balls and keeping Princeton down to seven scattered hits. His base running in the fifth inning was one of the features of the game. Scannell was a little unsteady at times, muffing two third...
Hitting at a 320 clip, Ignacio finished fourth in team batting statistics while tying the Harvard record for most doubles in one season (9). The left fielder also leads the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League batting standings with a 448 average. His nearest competitor for the EIBL's Charles H. Blair Bat is teammate Pete Varney...
...DeMichele narrowly edged sophomore teammates Varney and Pete Bernhard for Harvard's Wendell Bat. The Bat is awarded on the basis of points for safe arrivals at first base, sacrifice hits, stolen bases, runs scored, and RBI's. DeMichele, who finished the season hitting .342, set a Harvard record for fewest strikeouts (3) in a single year...
Chasey is second to Crimson captain John Ignacio in the race for the Charles H. Blair Bat, symbolic of hitting supremacy in the EIBL. Ignacio is hitting at a .571 clip and is only one double away from the Harvard record for most doubles (nine) in a season...