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...second-inning Red Sox rally started when Ellis hit lead off batter Carlton Fisk. Ellis then walked Dwight Evans and gave up a single to Rico Petrocelli which drove in Fisk...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Tiant Leads Bosox Over Yankees, 8-2; Lynn Goes 3 for 5 | 6/4/1976 | See Source »

...even more heavily compensated. A six-figure income does much to assuage pain and indignity. The essential concern is with that "entire generation's concept of sport." A fan, an owner or a player who comes to be lieve a pitcher has the right to injure a batter may as well believe that Bobby Fischer has a right to kick over the chessboard when he is threatened, or that order itself is an outmoded idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Doing Violence to Sport | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

...only major league pitcher ever to kill a batter with a pitched ball? Who was the victim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rites of Reading Period: The Crimson Baseball Quiz | 5/19/1976 | See Source »

Every time a batter gets a hit off Andy Messersmith or any other million-dollar pitcher, he should be given a raise simply because a million-dollar pitcher should be unhittable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, May 17, 1976 | 5/17/1976 | See Source »

With the exception of Dave Singleton, who had two singles, no Harvard batter could touch Castiglione for more than one hit. The latter's nine-inning totals included four walks and seven strike-outs; whenever he needed...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Crimson Batmen Succumb to Yale, 4-0 | 4/17/1976 | See Source »

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