Word: centerfielders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson returns three starters to what must rightly be called the Ancient Eight's best outfield. Harvard's defensive anchor and defending Ivy League Player of the Year, senior Brian Ralph, will patrol centerfield and pull down superlatives from around the League for his leather...
Cases in point: Ken Griffey, Jr. and Bernie Williams, the junior circuit's centerfield heirs to the throne. Griffey, who managed 56 home runs and 147 RBI, could only squeak out two hits and a .133 batting average against the Birds. And his vaunted gold glove came up a bit short when Roberto Alomar, predictably enough, welcomed Bobby Ayala from the chamber-of-horrors Seattle bullpen with a shot to the centerfield wall that Junior couldn't quite handle...
...next batter up hit a long fly to right centerfield. I thought for sure it was going to fall in for the game-winning hit. But wait. Intersecting with the ball was a flash of yellow--our rightfielder. He caught it. He held onto it. In the next moment, he was engulfed in the outfield by his teammates...
...much of an exaggeration. Sue-Ling's muscular build belies his lightning quickness, which becomes evident as he flags down ball after ball in centerfield during softball games...
...fight that continues to this day. "I haven't been paid properly in 17 years," Fogerty says. "That will give you a handle on why I was so angry." He didn't record again for almost 10 years, and when he did, on 1985's smashing Centerfield (Warner Bros.), he got in some licks at his adversary in a hard-driving tune called Zanz Kan't Danz, with a chorus that warned: "Zanz can't dance/ But he'll steal your money/ Watch him or he'll rob you blind...