Word: fungos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first game senior Paul McOsker relieved sore-shouldered starter Ron Stewart in the second inning, and the lanky lefty ("Hey, who put the uniform on the fungo?" was the razz line at Cornell) proceeded to hual his finest stint since he one-hit Princeton two years ago. McOsker brought his record to 3-1 for the year, yielding only two hits and three walks in six innings...
...game hijinx at chilly MIT were particularly spectacular yesterday. Shortstop Burke St. John demonstrated some juggling ability of Harvard Square kiosk quality, while lanky Steve Baloff's ability to balance a fungo bat on his nose is a gift that few others can claim. Yesterday's Box Score HARVARD AB R H RBI Pearce, 3b 3 0 0 0 Santos-Buch, cf 4 0 0 0 Bannish, cf 1 0 0 0 Stenhouse, If 4 1 2 1 Bingham, 1b 4 1 1 1 Peccerillo, rf 2 0 0 0 Bowles, pr 0 1 0 0 Blood...
...stop complaining or God might not grant my wish to get the fungo bat surgically removed from Mickey Rivers's behind...
...ball in the last two and a half months, anything that the team did was pure gravy. They won the pennant despite all the verbal rattail-flicking that went on off the field, despite injuries to their pitching staff that clogged them throughout, despite having a $100,000 fungo hitter in Ken Holtzman, despite Bucky Dent's mediocrity, despite George Steinbrenner's obtrusive presence...
...World Series history. After erupting for three quick runs in the first inning, the Orioles seemed afflicted by some sort of night blindness when the Pirates brought in Relief Pitcher Bruce Kison, 21, a sidearming rookie brought up from the minors in July. Lean and whippy as a fungo bat, the 6-ft. 4-in. Kison allowed only one hit and shut out the Oriole musclemen for the next six innings. The Pirates, led by Stargell, Centerfielder Al Oliver and the irrepressible Clemente, pushed across two runs of their own in the first inning and another in the third...