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When the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox last played in a game that meant something, Teddy Roosevelt was President and SOS had just been adopted as the universal distress signal. Most sportswriters thought the White Sox, known as the Hitless Wonders, needed to send out just such a call against the Cubs, who had won a record 116 games behind the poetic double-play relay of Tinker to Evers to Chance. But funny things happen in baseball, and the Southsiders won the fourth World Series ever played, four games...
...find so much enjoyment in a ground ball, much less his 100,000,000th ground ball? Then he went off to work on his swing on the indoor batting tee for 15 minutes, and then he went over scouting reports on the Indians. Once the game started, he went hitless and drew a walk, but played his position flawlessly. (A shortstop has some special responsibility on every play that's not a strikeout.) And when the 3-hr. 16-min. 8-5 defeat was over, Ripken didn't just dress and go home. He went back out onto the field...
...three innings of work, the right-hander held MIT hitless, while striking out five, four of which went down looking...
...before (a 19-5 loss to the Carp). Wednesday: Orix Blue Wave superstar Ichiro Suzuki (left), who tends bonsai in his off-hours, broke a 43-year-old record with his 192nd hit of the season (George Sisler set the U.S. record of 257 in 1920). Friday: Suzuki went hitless as the Pacific Division's first-place Seibu Lions beat the second-place Orix 6-1, moving four games ahead. Rain -- not a labor dispute -- canceled besuboru's other Friday games...
...Huskies didn't disappoint in the opening stanzas of the game, either. Paced by the solid mixed-bag pitching of Forneiro, the fourth man in the squad's rotation, Northeastern held the Crimson hitless through four innings...