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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obviously pitch well: Doyle racked six impressive wins pitching for Yarmouth-Dennis in Cape Cod this summer and has looked good so far this spring, while Larson, a varsity hockey player, did not make the trip south but threw exceptionally well in a simulated game at Briggs Cage yesterday. He has won more games over the past two years than any other Crimson pitcher...
Until then, the squad will return to Briggs Cage for practice sessions and simulated games, moving outside if conditions allow. Greg Brown, yesterday's scheduled starter, will throw in the Cage today with Billy Doyle on tap to do the same tomorrow. The rest of the staff will be skiing laps in the outfield...
...outfield Williams hits fungoes. "The Splendid Splinter" is no longer a splinter. His stomach expands his windbreaker. "Ted the Kid"-his other nickname-is 63. Between fungoes he steals wistful glances at the kids in the batting cage doing the real hitting, kids who weren't even born when he retired. When he hits a ball over a frantically scrambling young outfielder's head, he gives a cackling laugh and shouts, "Bye! See yah later." An old man's revenge...
Some of the bugs in the shuttle did not catch the astronauts by surprise. During a midweek telecast, Lousma and Fullerton unveiled a cage full of insect passengers, three dozen caterpillar moths, house flies and honeybees. They were on board at the suggestion of Todd Nelson, 18, of Rose Creek, Minn., winner of a nationwide contest for high school students. The object of Todd's experiment: to determine the flight characteristics of various types of insects in zero-g. The bugs did not seem to get the idea. Except when their plastic containers were jostled by the astronauts, they...
Yesterday, Chicarello played a lot of pepper, did his usual hollering around the cage and took a regular turn at bat. After fouling off Sullivan's first offering, he made contact two or three times, closing with a long drive to right-center...