Word: batting
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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...
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...
Cornell wrapped up the game in their next at bat when with two outs they exploded for four runs. A porous outfield allowed hits by Witkowski and Watzka to go for extra bases...
...chill, leaden afternoon nine years ago, Ted Williams came to bat for the last time in the final Boston Red Sox home game. As he had done so often in 19 storied seasons, Williams stroked a towering home run. Preferring to leave baseball as he had played it-with unsurpassed style-he retired on the spot...
...sort of. What Williams' tutelage comes down to is a brushup on the basics, a touch of inspiration and lots of positive thinking. "Nobody knows that little game between the pitcher and the batter better than I do," he says. At practice sessions, he stations himself behind the batting cage, shouting for Catcher Paul Casanova to choke up on the bat, commanding Shortstop Eddie Brinkman to "swing at strikes, dammit, strikes. Wait for the good pitch. And listen, the base on balls is a hell of a play." For the pitchers, there are lessons on what makes a curve...