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...onslaught continued in the third as Mark Bingham doubled. Jim Peccerillo's foul pop-up got the dropsy treatment from three Tigers and he used the life to produce a single that moved Bingham to third. Paul Halas picked up the RBI with a sacrifice...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Batsmen Tame Tigers Twice | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

Sooner than you can lay down foul lines, unleashed dogs patrol the Yard dropping obstacles all over your potential basepaths. Before you can chalk in the coaching boxes, B & G fences off all the sod at Harvard into polygons, triangles, and other high school subjects...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: When a Young Man's Fancy Turns to Whiffleball | 4/25/1978 | See Source »

...take a look at the x-rays of starting catcher Joe Wark's right hand. The freshman backstop caught a foul tip on his throwing hand and is now out for six weeks (virtually the season) with a bad fracture. Veteran Steve Joyce will be forced to handle all the catching chores from...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Batsmen Hit Meat of League Schedule | 4/21/1978 | See Source »

...cotton subsidies to farmers who reduce plantings, which will surely raise food prices. There is no excuse for subsidies, despite some farmers' noisy threats of "strike." Farm prices have risen 13.9% since last September, and some food prices will shoot through the roof this spring be cause foul weather has badly hurt harvests of Soviet wheat and Brazilian soybeans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Ten Ways to Cut Inflation | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...home runs in a major league game, and "Tip" O'Neill, who hit .435 in 1887 (thanks to the rules of the day, which counted walks as base hits), are perennial favorites. But O'Neill really couldn't hit the floor with a bag of shamrocks--he used to foul-tip everything near the strike zone until he finally walked (hence the nickname, which was later passed on to the Speaker of the House, who is likewise not noted as a heavy hitter). Delahanty, meanwhile, had the poor judgement to end his career by getting drunk and strolling...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: When Irish Hearts Are Happy ... | 3/17/1978 | See Source »

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