Word: bunts
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...Manhattan, Yankee Yogi Berra broke a long-standing habit of holding out until late spring before accepting his season's contract. Offered an estimated $45,000, Yogi grabbed for a pen like a catcher going for a squeeze bunt, signed and became the best-paid backstop in baseball...
...Columbia game, the Crimson could get only two hits, much class score. Don Butters beat out a bunt in the second, and Walt Greeley lined a single to counter in the ninth for the only hits off Columbia's Jack Rohan, starting his first Ivy league game...
...Crimson take a 3 to 0 lead in the first inning. Bob Smith, starting his first game of the season, drew first after he was hit by a pitch to open the inning. Walt Greeley singled Smith to second, and both runners advanced on Dick Clasby's neat sacrifice bunt in front of the plate. Johnson then smashed one of M.I.T. starter Ted Slosek's fastballs to deep left for the base-clearing three-bagger. He scored on Don Butters' flyout...
Greeley led off the eighth with a hard double that landed in deep left-centerfield, despite a strong crosswind. Dick Clasby walked, and Johnson loaded the bases by beating out a neat sacrifice bunt which the Holy Cross infield didn't have time to play...
...Crusaders broke scoring ice in the third inning. Starter Jack Lonergan led off with a walk, advanced to second on Paul Brisette's neat sacrifice bunt, and scored when Gene Schiller smashed a hard single over shortstop. Two force outs ended the inning, however...