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...spent ten years in Wareham in the Cape Cod League, and I’ve never seen any player take a ball over the center field fence. When Klim was a junior, I saw him—with a wooden bat—drive a ball over the centerfield fence there. I just said, ‘Whoa!’ That doesn’t come along too often...
...Whitton doesn’t take herself all that seriously. She offers a story from a game against Drexel last year. She was on second base when the next batter hit a long fly ball to centerfield, which Whitton judged to be at least a double. She took off running, but it wasn’t until she had rounded third that she realized her coach was frantically signaling—the ball had been caught by the Drexel centerfielder. Whitton says she used her Harvard logical reasoning skills to get back to second base: “The shortest...
...walk and a double briefly shift Morris’ attention back to the television from the hypothetical situations where the mind of a statistics professor is wont to dwell. But as a J.D. Drew fly ball to centerfield leaves the runners stranded and the Cardinals scoreless in the first, Morris returns to his chart. Taking out a mechanical blue pencil and scientific calculator, Morris lays out the formula for the new all-in-one offensive statistic he has developed, Runs Per Game...
...Bears’ Jonathan Stern—who shared Ivy Pitcher of the Year honors with Crockett—had handcuffed the Crimson for most of the game. But with two outs and junior Nick Seminara on second, sophomore pinch-hitter Mickey Kropf connected on a drive to deep centerfield that tied the game and put the winning run on third base...
...games we would put on Centerfield by John Foggarty and had a whole dance to it,” said Sabin. “We would be dancing in the vans, singing into our hairbrushes at the top of our lungs, then get out and play...