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...sliding in safely with his 36th sto len base of the season. Curt Flood running full tilt into the centerfield wall to spear a liner that otherwise would have been a sure extra-base hit. Roger Maris crossing up the pulled-back enemy infield with a perfectly placed drag bunt. Orlando Cepeda explaining his .339 batting average and 19 home runs...
Instead, Andrews knocked a beautiful bunt down the third base line and was standing on first base with the score tied before the Angels knew what had happened. Moments later the Sox' biggest gun, Carl Yastrzemski, walloped a bases-loaded double off the left field wall and Boston went...
...packed house at Fenway was more delirious over Andrews' bunt than any of the fireworks which preceded or followed it. His neat piece of strategy demonstrated a trait which was, until this year, a total stranger to Fenway Park. Intelligence...
...Your Essay is a lot of baloney. Today's sport stars have not, as you claim, eclipsed the great stars of the 1920s. For example, Jim Thorpe could outkick any kicker today. No batter today in the big leagues can even make a good sacrifice bunt. Very few pitchers today can go nine innings, and no pitcher today makes a patch on Dizzy Dean's or Satchel Paige's pants...
Harvard added an "insurance run" in the eighth to close the scoring, the big blow being Jeff Hall's long double. The stocky catcher moved to third on a fielder's choice and was brought across the plate by third-baseman Bill Cobb's sacrifice bunt. HARVARD ab r h Cobb 3 0 0 Smith 5 1 2 H'stein 5 1 1 Lord 2 1 1 O'Don'll 3 0 0 Kar'g'ns 3 0 0 Hall 3 1 1 M'nch'r 2 0 0 Peters 4 0 0 Totals...