Word: catchers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...directed by their writers, that play games with baseball. David S. Ward's Major League is a rowdy, genially cynical comedy about jocks and Jills. Its fanciful Cleveland Indians team is a bunch of rejects from the Mexican, minor and California Penal leagues. Now coming to bat: the veteran catcher on his last legs (Tom Berenger), the Willie Mays wanna-be (Wesley Snipes), the pampered third baseman (Corbin Bernsen). And on the mound, a fastballer (Charlie Sheen) with control problems on and off the field. With this gang, in this comic fantasy, the Tribe can't lose...
...second, Harvard displayed the heads-up defense which has characterized its play this season. With a runner on second and nobody out, Reilly stopped a hard-hit ball to third for a put out, junior Lee Polikoff struck out Renaud, and catcher and Captain Nancy Prior picked off the Holy Cross runner at third...
With two out and two on, Crusader catcher Michelle Fagnant bombed a three-run homer to break the scoreless deadlock...
...Crimson showed tremendous heads-up play in the bottom of the second. Anderson and Liz McNamara pulled off a daring second-home double steal to put Harvard on the scoreboard. Katy Frucher alertly kept the inning alive by hustling to first after the catcher dropped the third strike pitch. But the threat was turned down when Frucher was cut down stealing on a perfect throw to second...
Bill Cleary, coach of the NCAA champion Harvard hockey team, is nursing a sore shoulder and his toss from the Fenway mound bounced a few feet shy of Sox catcher Rich Gedman...