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...NOTEBOOK: Saturday's first game, a 9-3 loss, was highlighted on the Crimson end by Gaylord Lyman's 400-foot home run off-Middie Bob Adrion. The diminutive sophomore walloped a slow curve to right-centerfield for his first home run in intercollegiate competition. The two-run shot equalled his 1981 runs-batted-in total... Nobody can explain Larson's second-inning lapse in Saturday's nightcap. Yeah, the wind was blowing out, but as Larson says, "those balls were hit." In all, the weekend featured ten homers, but just three for the home team... After six games...
...opposing team as against other games in the past. There are ghosts on the field in the middle distance. Caterino remembers seeing Walter Johnson pitch and Ty Cobb tear up the bases. He can recall when an overflow Red Sox crowd, seated in a roped-off section of centerfield, parted like the Red Sea when the graceful Tris Speaker faded back to run down a fly. Fegan saw his first Red Sox game in 1911. As the Colonel says, "When you're 82, you've been around...
...illness; in Palm Springs, Calif. In 1941, his first full season, Reiser at 22 led the National League in batting (.343), slugging (.558), runs scored (117), total bases (299) and triples (17). The next year, "Pistol Pete" was smoking along at a .380 clip when he crashed into a centerfield wall while running after a line drive. He knocked himself unconscious, and by the end of the season his batting average dropped to .310. In 1947 he again crashed into an outfield wall, with such force that a Roman Catholic priest administered last rites as Reiser sprawled unconscious...
...several long flyouts in the seventh, was taken out for a pinch-hitter, and was relieved by Steve Rogers in the ninth. Rogers, pitching in relief for only the third time in his career, became the losing pitcher as Monday stroked a three-and-one pitch over the centerfield wall...
...referee, who had been standing near the Harvard players, approached Bott and said the play would never work. He also did not believe that Babe Ruth could hit to centerfield...