Word: haster
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Hastings, "Haster" as they called him, was never what you'd call a guess hitter. Though not particularly fleet of foot, he was blessed with extraordinary quickness. Haster would stand in the batter's box, facing the fireballer, or screwballer, or what have you 60 feet away, and figure that whatever that pitcher could throw, he had good enough reflexes...
...spring of '57, Haster and "Babe" Simourian and the other guys on the baseball team took a seven-hour ride to Princeton's Bedford Field. The Tigers had a good squad, and this day they had their pitching ace, John Finnegan, on the mound...
Finnegan was a fireballer, and with a couple of timely aids form his distant outfield, he kept Harvard at bay most of the afternoon. When Haster stepped into the batter's box in the sixth inning, the game was locked in a scoreless...
...Haster assumed his familiar stand-up, straightaway stance. Finnegan wound up and brought in a fastball, letter-high and inside. It was to be his first and only mistake of the game as Haster's blast sailed over the leftfielder's head and rolled down a hill to a neighboring set of practice fields...
...Haster was a dangerous hitter. The headline was half an inch high and ran all the way across the page in the following day's New York Times: "Harvard Defeats Princeton, 1-0, on Hastings' Homer...