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Peter Bannish has shelved his first baseman's mitt and is now pitching. In his place at the gateway are two freshmen, Mark Bingham and Mark Epstein. Bingham has the edge at first, while Epstein's big bat could be put to good use at the designated hitter spot...
Harvard also unveiled a new weapon that parallels the role of the designated hitter in baseball--the designated defender. O'Neil substituted guard Douglas McIntosh for almost every Yale in-bounds play. In one sequence McIntosh pilfered an errant toss, deflected a lob, and knocked the ball out of play with his head as he dove across the floor...
...quintessential master of a game that would no longer be familiar to present-day players. He was a slapdash hitter who careened along the basepaths and the endless outfields of the old ballparks with reckless abandon. He had an uncanny sense of the strike zone and surprising power for a man who stood only 5 ft., 4 in. tall...
Overall, the Post is better written with a pervading sense of self-deprecating irony. The Times, like a baseball manager who sends in a designated hitter, achieves its lighter effects with designated humorists: Israel Shenker, who merrily wanders the halls of academe, or Columnist Russell Baker, the best satirist in the American press. The Post's daily Style section takes itself less seriously than does the Times in its cultural coverage; but then in Washington there is less to take seriously, even if you add in the Kennedy Center and the Hirshhorn Museum. The Style section's reportorial...
...wants to say just how good until February 5 at Princeton, when the Crimson plays its only match this season. Everything is hush-hush till then (you can't mention no-hitter until after the final out, if you know what I mean) but it's no secret that against the Green the Crimson was sporting a new look...