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PRINCETON, N.J.—The mists had descended fully upon Clarke Field yesterday, darkening and suffocating, and out of the dugout and full into it came freshman Frank Herrmann, and in all of this was the possibility and promise of baseball...
...Herrmann came to face a fate that seemed as inevitable as the thunderstorms at the hands of Princeton’s Thomas Pauly, who had already struck out nine batters and wound up dispatching Herrmann with a perhaps predictable ease. Herrmann’s at-bat was only his 16th of the season, and he had scarcely even made contact in his few Ivy League appearances...
...sent [Herrmann] up there to swing the bat,” Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “He’s got a lot of power. If he could get a hold of one and hit it out of the shortest part of the park…We were looking for a dream come true up there...
...there was Herrmann, and there was Pauly, and here were the Princeton fans on their feet. And despite the mists and their certainty, the difference between the seemingly inevitable and the cinematically unreal was represented by a couple of miles per hour, an inch or two, a millisecond’s worth of delay jumping on strike three, and in all of this was the possibility and promise of baseball...
...also appreciated the raw moments of possibility themselves, personalities aside. There had been other moments in the mist for him—a win from seven runs down against Brown in the rain at O’Donnell Field that was as or more improbable than a Frank Herrmann three-run homer would have been yesterday...