Word: hitter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minor league Triple Crown last year with Pawtucket he was expected to be the real star, and in a Lynnless summer he would have been. As it stands, he's hitting almost ...300, and is third in the league in RBIs. Beginning the season as a designated hitter, he's recently moved to left field and has been fielding well...
...shuddering intimations of mortality on that slab. He talks to himself continuously in an erratic monologue that is both manic and depressive: "Here I am 39 years old, and my hero is still Holden Caulfield." At the top of the seventh inning, the Duke is working on a no-hitter, but he has only one pitch left in his eroded repertory: a low slider. As he muses, in Archie Bunker fashion, on how much he detests the ethnic and racial back grounds of the batters he must face, he not only loses his no-hitter but gradually loads the bases...
...imminent middle age. It is not the batters whom Duke hates the most but the loss of physical powers, of fame, of the only work he is qualified to do. Tony Lo Bianco captures every nuance of this, and his evening on the mound is a dramatically blazing no-hitter...
...Power hitter sophomore Tom Joyce and slick fielding juniors Barry and Fran Cronin (no relation) added depth to the team...
...Palmer outdueled Kansas City's Steve Busby with a brilliant one hitter yesterday as the Baltimore Orioles rode Brooks Robinson's seventh inning single to a 1-0 victory over the Royals...