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Junior co-captain Kerry Flaherty starts in centerfield, where she started 32 games last year...
Walsh will also try converting speedy Matt Vance, of Solana Beach, Calif., to an outfield slot, perhaps the one just vacated by the acrobatic Hale. As of now, it’s looking like either he or junior rightfielder Lance Salsgiver will be patrolling centerfield...
Remember “The Catch”? Willie Mays, racing back into the bowels of the cavernous centerfield at the Polo Grounds and reaching out to cradle in a 450-foot blast with his back to the infield? The ball was hit by Cleveland’s Vic Wertz in the top of the eighth of Game 1 of the 1954 World Series with runners on first and second and nobody out in a 2-2 game. Needless to say, the runners didn’t score. The Giants won the game, and went on to win the Series...
...League in batting average (.427) and pitching wins (nine)—one of them, a complete game shutout of Dartmouth on May 2, kept Harvard’s season alive—and was voted Ivy League Pitcher of the Year. Hale, a senior from Seattle, played spectacular centerfield defense the entire year, making the most difficult plays appear easy; the most strenuous, merely graceful. His two highlight-reel catches against Brown on April 25—the last of which, a dive on the warning track gravel, inspired Walsh to praise his “fearlessness?...
Harvard took an early 1-0 lead in the second inning. Wallace doubled to centerfield with one out and advanced to third on a fly ball by Casey. Wallace then scored when Holy Cross starting pitcher Drew Bigda threw a wild pitch over his catcher’s head and to the backstop...