Word: buntings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rossi and Harvard won the game, 1-0, on an unearned and unusual run in the eighth. Skip Falcone started the inning with Harvard's fourth hit, and moved to second when George Neville atoned for three strike outs with a soft line single to center. A perfect sacrifice bunt by Mike Patrick advanced the runners a base apiece...
...Stephenson then stepped up to hit, with instructions to place a squeeze bunt. Suspecting this to be the case, the Cadets suddenly called for an intentional walk. Neither the runners nor Stephenson heard the calls from the bench, and when the pitch came wide Stephenson just stepped back...
...Lion catchers' exercise wasn't finished. Neville singled to start the seventh, went to second on a groundout, and to third on Gertz' third passed ball. Stephenson brought him in with a squeeze bunt...
...store for them. Right at the start of the third game, the Dodgers scraped up a run. And once again, the Yankee sluggers might have been waving feathers for all the wood they got on the ball. Mickey Mantle got his first hit of the series-a bloop bunt single. There were only two other Yankee hits, and nine more horrendous strikeouts, and it all ended in a 1-0 shutout...
Harvard's moment of glory came in the third inning. Sophomore hurler Tom Rucker walked and took a long lead off first. Curly Combs got set to bunt, the Crusader pitcher got the message, and picked off Rucker...