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Bounding from the bench with his poultry-like gait, Fred Stanley has for years gobbled up short hops and popped clutch singles when Yankee regulars were too pooped to play. He specializes in the eighth and ninth innings and eagerly awaits the second game of every twin bill, hoping to see his manager look down the dugout and hear him bark, "Get out there Fred Stanley and help us win this damned thing...
...course, Zos was not the only ingredient in this spring's successful formula, but his clutch performances in crucial contests gave the Crimson a stopper. After the loss to graduation of 1979 staff ace Larry Brown (now with the Houston Astros organization), it looked like Harvard might have to suffer a season without a hurler who could provide consistently strong performances. Zos stepped into the role easily...
...Nidal, 18. Ordinarily, Nidal performed the chore of starting up the engine on his father's battered 1966 Opel, which was parked in the family courtyard, but on this morning the youth was studying for his high school exams. As the mayor started the ignition and depressed the clutch, a bomb exploded, severing both of his legs. Nidal ran to the car, and cradling his father in his arms, carried him to a neighbor's automobile for the half-mile drive to Rifediya Hospital...
They were the scourge of the '60s, members of a minor, mean-spirited motorcycle club, raised through their own viciousness and the fascination of the press to the status of ravening Huns. For the past seven months a clutch of Hell's Angels has been on trial in San Francisco's Federal Building, accused of having spent the '70s conspiring to be racketeers. The proceedings are known officially as The United States of America vs. Ralph Barger...
Bingham then recounts his frustration in failing to hit in a clutch situation, his routine fly out with a man on second in the top of the ninth during Tuesday's one-run loss to Holy Cross. He laughs, "Things like that you can't even deal with...