Word: hitters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, money is a significant statistic, and Rose's famous ambition was to become the "first $100,000 singles hitter." His original minor-league salary was $400 a month. For being the National League's rookie of the year in 1963, he received a $5,000 raise that brought his annual pay to $12,500. Twenty years later, he was earning $10,000 a game...
...next to an ardent Bosox fan. You'll hear stories of the 1967 squad with Lonborg and Yazstremski, the 1975 squad with Fisk, Lynn, Tiant and pinch-hitter extraordinaire Bernie Carbo and the 1986 squad with Clemens, Boggs, Evans and Barrett...
...special investigator, John Dowd, asserted in court that he has found nine witnesses and enough corroborating evidence to prove that Rose committed baseball's capital crime: from 1985 through 1987 the hustling heir to Ty Cobb routinely bet on his own Cincinnati Reds. Even for history's leading hitter, who retired after 24 seasons to manage the team in 1987, the prescribed penalty would be expulsion from the game...
Limited editions are in particular demand. Edd Roush, a .323-lifetime hitter with Cincinnati and the Giants during the '20s, died last year at 94. His final days were put to use keeping up with a mail-order frenzy for his trembling signature...
...hits on the day, while Princeton racked up 21... Last season the Crimson finished fourth in the Ivy title race last season, and has never before played for the championship...Four seniors played their last game in a Harvard uniform--Prior, Rowning, centerfielder Liz Crowley and designated hitter Brita Lind... The tripledigit attendance is believed to be the largest ever for a Harvard softball game...All fifteen Crimson players saw action in the contest...