Word: bush
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...champions of '70, took a trip after Commencement and went as far south as Philadelphia. Leeds led the batting this year, with a record of .503 for total base hits. Taken altogether, the results of the year were eminently satisfactory, and no Harvard Nine since that of Bush showed so well, even with professionals...
...Bush, Columbia 84ft...
This year, too, the Athletics, then the best nine in the country, were beaten by 22 to 10. In the autumn, Bush, afterwards so famous in base-ball annals, played his first game with the University Nine. The record for the year was twelve games won, two lost...
...remarkable Western tour of the Nine. It opened with a splendid game in which Yale was beaten 22 to 24, on July 3. The Haymakers, Mutuals, Red Stockings, and numerous other professional clubs were met, and twenty out of twenty-six games were won. This was the climax of Bush's base-ball career, and it has been said of him that without doubt he was the best player the country had seen...
Eleven men threw the hammer, Bush, '80 (Columbia), taking first prize, with a record of 84 ft. 1/2 in. Irons, '81 (Brown), was second, throwing...