Word: hitter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Freshman Anna Collins will be Position at either strong setter or middle with all-Ivy senior Margaret Cheng setting Junior Ellen Schreiber will continue to occupy the slot of strong side hitter and Nina Henderson will start as center blacker Sophomore Cecilia Meagher will see substantial playing time but her starting will depend where Altman puts Collins. Altman said she would not reveal the team's final first stringer...
Senior Margaret Cheng's 10 point setting complemented by freshman six-footer Anna Collins's frequent display of spiking power baffled both the Elis and the Fagles for the entire day. When Collins rotated into the back line, junior Ellen Schreiber took over as strong hitter and laid down some well played shots...
...there is a third Pete Rose, a carrot-topped little line-drive hitter. "I've never seen a twelve-year-old who can hit like Petey," says his father. "He called me from Cincinnati the other day to say he had been missing me and that his team had some easy games coming up. Couldn't he come to Philadelphia for a few days...
...abandoned seven Gold Gloves fielding awards out in left-field when he began moving over to first base seven or eight years ago, and now he is almost exclusively a designated hitter (a tenth man who only hits, an American League aberration). He is platooned with Rose's old comrade, 40-year-old Tony Perez, who takes the lefthanded pitchers, while Yaz gets the righthanders. "Pete is a hitting machine; Yaz is a hard-working hitter," says Perez, who collected his own 2,500th hit the other day. Yastrzemski's career batting average (.286) is the lowest...
...gets $1.5 million a year for, as he says, "doing nothing different than I did as a kid, only in a slightly better uniform with a few more people watching." He smiles and says, "Remember when I used to say I wanted to be the first $ 100,000 singles hitter? Well, there wasn't really a dollar figure on it. I just wanted to prove all that hustle and determination were worthwhile. Really, I just wanted to be respected...