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...almost every baseball fan knows, Williams went into the last game of the 1941 season hitting .400 and could have warmed the bench for the meaningless game. Instead, he went six-for-eight in a doubleheader and raised his average...
Instead, Mattingly went 2-for-5 and Boggs, after playing a "grueling" 149 games (Mattingly played all 162) was allowed to sit on the bench--and on his undeserved batting title...
Imagine Harvard tying Oklahoma, and you can picture the scene of jubilation on the Crimson bench as the stickwomen--after 90 minutes of exhausting play--forced a 1-1 deadlock with the nationally-ranked Huskies in front of 40 spectators...
With the game's outcome no longer in doubt, Hafferty substituted players freely. "It was a good opportunity for us to let everybody on the bench play, and for me to see different people in different combinations," he noted...
...Harry Claiborne, 69, a federal judge from Las Vegas convicted in 1984 on two counts of tax evasion. In prison since May, he still collects his $78,000-a-year federal salary. If he is not removed by the Senate, he will be able to return to the bench once he finishes his two-year jail term...