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...will continue to look at every game as a stepping stone in the season's progression," sophomore outside hitter Erin Denniston said...
Coach Jennifer Weiss, in her seventh year at Harvard, returns to lead the Crimson this fall. Her line-up contains strong contingents in each of the class years. Co-captains Linda Jellison, an outside hitter and All-Ivy Honorable Mention, and Kristen Schaeffer, a middle blocker, are joined by two other senior teammates, Laurel Rayburn and Kristen Priscella...
...your picture, something shiny on its head. Aha! you think, that could be a batting helmet, and ergo this new face could belong to the player at the plate who, since he's inclining his head over his invisible right shoulder, may be a left-handed hitter...
...Prohibition --Suntans --Leisure suits --New Math --The Blacklist --Comeback Tours --Asbestos --The Designated-Hitter Rule --Barney --Crystal Pepsi --New Coke --Woody Allen, Paterfamilias --DDT --Sailing the Exxon Valdez into Prince William Sound --The Eight-Track Tape --Cryogenics --The Treaty of Versailles --Smell-O-Vision --Chain E-Mail --Hydrogen-Filled Blimps --Staffing the White House with Interns During the Government Shutdown --Hair Club for Men --Bush's Choice of Quayle --Promoting Kim Philby --Message T Shirts --Videophones --Spray-on Hair --Infomercials --The Spruce Goose --Theme Restaurants --Letting Oliver North Near a Shredder --Not Bombing the Fuel Tanks at Pearl Harbor --Hooked...
Jackie's character was much more important than his batting average, but it certainly helped that he was a great ballplayer, a .311 career hitter whose trademark was rattling pitchers and fielders with his daring base running. He wasn't the best Negro League talent at the time he was chosen, and baseball wasn't really his best sport--he had been a football and track star at UCLA--but he played the game with a ferocious creativity that gave the country a good idea of what it had been missing all those years. With Jackie in the infield...