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...year, his one defeat being a 3 to 2 decision at the hands of a strong Yale team which he lost in the ninth inning on a scratch infield single. Cornell's chief problem at the moment is the same as the varsity's: anemic hitting. Their only consistent batter is a Hawaiian first baseman by the name of Jim Shigikane who is the leading hitter on the team...
Harvey Friedman, who threw a 3-0 shut-out against M.I.T. Tuesday, leads the pitching staff. He allowed only four hits, while no M.I.T. batter reached third base. Though mainly a "junk pitcher" he has a fast ball that looks very quick after a series of slow curves. Opposed to the tradition of wild lefties, Friedman has no trouble getting the ball over the plate...
Recipe. In West Harrison, Ind., police searched for the vandals who broke into a store, smashed 48 dozen eggs, added several sacks of flour, salt and sugar to the batter, sprinkled liberally with pork loins, hams, bacon slabs, 48 roasting chickens...
Catcher Pearson dies, but by that time Narrator Wiggen and Author Harris have made their point: scratch a ballplayer and you find a human being, a taxpayer, a batter in the game of life whose exhilaration at pitching a shutout or swatting a homer with the bases full is apt to be balanced at any time by an ignominious strikeout or a sad walk to the showers. As the theme of a novel, this carries its own banality if only because no decent reader would want to quarrel with it. What makes Bang the Drum Slowly unique in current fiction...
Then Connie moved up right behind the batter. That close, he could not resist the temptation to tip bats and trip batters. A good catcher but not a great one, he was tricky and tough enough to move up through the bush leagues into the big time. In that era of fierce competition and low salaries (he got $200 a month in 1886), Connie jumped from the solidly entrenched National League to the short-lived Brotherhood, then to the Pittsburgh Nationals, where he played until 1893, when a broken ankle sent him on to an unparalleled career as manager...