Word: games
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play that lost the game came in the top of the tenth. Reliever Ron Steward seemed out of the inning when he got two quick outs, but he gave up a single to the seventh hitter and a walk to the eighth hitter...
Number nine batter Tom Scannel then lined a 2-2 fastball to the left side of the infield, which Harvard shortstop Burke St. John--who had broken out of his slumping ways earlier in the game with two shot singles and heady play in the field--booted into right-center to give the Crusaders two runs...
...disappointed, obviously, but at least the kids hustled," coach Alex Nahigian said after the game. "All I can ask 'em to do is their best...
Baseball, unlike most modern day sports, has remained fundamentally unchanged in design and spirit since its genesis in the middle of the 19th century. The invention of the game is attributed in folklore to Abner Doubleday. Besides founding the national sport, Gen. Doubleday--after graduating from West Point--was present at Fort Sumter, where as an artillery captain he sighted the first cannon fired by the Union in the Civil...
...thing, though, that has changed dramatically since those early days is the tools of the trade. One of the most importan breakthroughs in the game was the invention of the catcher's mask by none other than the captain of the 1877 Harvard team, F.W. Thayer. The catcher's mask has remained Harvard's legacy to the great American pastime for 102 years...