Word: batting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happy to enter the record books with Aaron by "grooving" the history-making pitch. Aaron is not looking for charity; what he wants is understanding. He is concerned about "pressure from the stands," from the fans "who expect me to hit a home run every time I come to bat. I wish they would understand that...
...Tory sportswriter? David Eisenhower, stepping up to bat with his first weekly column for the Philadelphia Bulletin, sounded a bit like one. "The rhetoric of change tingles the modern American," he noted, but baseball should look to its traditions. "Fans want a pleasant afternoon in a pleasant spot in the city, time to reminisce and," added David awkwardly but enthusiastically, "a rooting part in exhorting their players on to the legendary heights that came before." Hired by the Bulletin at an undisclosed salary, David, 25, will track the Phillies on tour and report other sports as well. This will give...
Smith began his exploits in Friday's game with UMass at Fenway Park. The Minutemen jumped on Brayton in the first for a pair of runs on a double by UMass ace pitcher Mike Flanagan and a run producing single off the bat of Mike Koperniak. It looked bleak indeed until the fourth when, with Joe Sciolla on first, Jimmy Stoeckel blasted a shot over the famous Green Monster guarding Fenway's left field and indeed all the way across the street behind the park to tie the game...
...Bat Girls...
...champagne popped open in the Harvard locker and the Friars with their distracting bat-persons (female) had to take the two hour bus ride back to Providence, thinking maybe next year. Harvard fans will see their coach, Alex Nahigian, again though, as he will be here next Fall to assist Joe Restic. After the grid campaign however he returns to the Rhode Island capital to prepare the Friar baseball squad for another shot at the series...