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...decade that I worked on Bellow's biography, I often rode around Chicago with him in his olive green Range Rover. It was a joy to see the city through his eyes. One day we drove over to an apartment on the Northwest Side where he'd lived as a child, and loitered in front of a burgundy-brick three-flat with a concrete stoop and a tiny yard surrounded by necklace-like chains. We stood on the cracked sidewalk as if contemplating a shrine...
...three games, clobbering a grand slam off Bulldogs ace Josh Sowers to lift himself and Harvard out of a slump and atop the Red Rolfe division. And then, of course, there was the Ivy championship series against the Tigers, where—facing elimination—he drove in every Crimson run against flamethrower and eventual fourth-round draft pick Ross Ohlendorf, topping it off with a 400-foot home run into the trees in dead center...
Only then did the Crusaders threaten, when Holy Cross centerfielder Tom Potvin drove Bruton’s offering to the warning track in right center, where Matt Vance and Lance Salsgiver converged before nearly colliding. As Salsgiver slid to avoid Vance, the ball kissed off the latter’s glove and rolled into right field, allowing Potvin to reach second safely. Bruton’s subsequent pitch found the backstop, advancing Potvin to third with none out and drawing the Crimson infield...
...thought Morgan had a real good swing, drove the ball real hard,” Walsh said. “You get that down a little bit, it might have been in the gap. We had some good swings. I give some credit to them…What are you going to do? You just keep plugging away, hope things work out for you, line drives don’t get through, ground balls do. That’s baseball and that’s the beauty of the game...
...blow came off the bat off freshman Danielle Kerper, pinch-hitting for Stefanchik in the leadoff spot. She drove a double into the gap in left-center, scoring junior Pilar Adams and Brown...