Word: bunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bottom of the second, the Crusaders began to act as if they had a collective case of nikephobia. George Neville led off for Harvard with a walk, and Joe O'Donnell tried to move him to second with a sacrifice bunt. Knittel pounced on the ball and fired it to first. The second baseman, covering on the play, dropped the throw and O'Donnell was safe...
Crimson pitcher Jim McCandlish, thinking he had detected the beginning of a fad, ventured another bunt. He was right. The catcher hit him in the back with the ball and the bases were loaded. Houston then grounded sharply to the left side of the infield. The Holy Cross shortstop made a diving catch but had no play as Neville crossed the plate...
Harvard's most serious threat came in the fourth, when Neil Houston doubled and Tom Bilodeau followed with a walk. John Dockery's sacrifice bunt moved them to second and third. When O'Donnell grounded sharply to Fazen at second base, Houston tried to score and was thrown out by a step. Dan Hootstein then stroked a rising line drive to ward right field, but Fasen west high in the air to trap it and end the inning...
...Phil): "You could bunt and you could run-a good wheel, as they...
...wonder I couldn't bunt...