Word: hitter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bill Campbell took the loss for the Sox, lowering his record to 2-4, Jesse Jefferson, now 3-5, went the distance for Toronto, picking up the win on a seven-hitter...
Once he was a graceful Gold Glove outfielder and .300 hitter for the St. Louis Cardinals, earning $90,000 a year. But when the Cardinals tried to trade Curt Flood to the Philadelphia Phillies in 1969, he filed a suit challenging baseball's reserve system. Said he: "I am a man, not a consignment of goods to be bought and sold." The Supreme Court upheld the reserve system, and an angry Flood quit baseball, drifting around the world, tending his own bar on the Spanish island of Majorca and painting portraits for $350 and up. Now that baseball players...
...Harvard ninth Brandeis second baseman Brian Isaac returned the favor when he allowed lead-off batter Kelley to reach on his error. Stenhouse then moved pinch-hitter Bobby Jenkins to third as he followed with a single, and then Peccerillo pushed the tying run across with his sacrifice fly to left...
Keyte led off on Saturday, tossing beebees at the Huskies' lineup en route to a 10-walk, 10-strikeout outing. The frosh southpaw had a no-hitter going until the seventh (despite the liberal dosage of bases on balls), and he retired 12 of 13 in one stretch before giving way to Bill Bradshaw in the ninth...
Meanwhile, Clifford sailed along as he scattered singles in the second and third, but got into trouble in the fourth. After a walk, designated hitter Rod Shepard ripped a liner to leftfield...