Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only two of the eight starters, excluding Rossano, are hitting over .300. Left fielder Dick Fisher leads the team at .440 and right fielder John Getch is hitting .384. But since returning to the North, the regulars have hit only .213. As long as the pitching holds up, the team can win on two or three runs, but the averages of late are somewhat discouraging...
...Hoff, an adequate fielder, at first and Maurice Balboni at third round out the infield. Balboni has shown some hitting, but needs more work at third. Twice in the first game he had trouble with ground balls hit down the line...
...difference in the game was in the fielding as the Crimson played errorless ball behind its pitcher. Whenever the Crusaders began to hit Kessler hard, time and again a varsity fielder would choke off the rally with a fine defensive play. Holy Cross could not give their equally effective pitcher, Don Cote, such support, as they erred three times...
Both teams went scoreless up until the sixth inning, when the varsity added one vital insurance run. Dick Fisher led off with a sharp single to left and moved to second on Matt Botsford's sacrifice bunt. After Bob Hastings had grounded out, Catcher Bing Crosby then hit a 3 and 0 pitch for a double down the left field line to drive in Fisher. Fisher and Crosby each garnered two of the Crimson's six hits...
...even giving them hints. For example, he would use larger or colored numbers in the more difficult problems. As the student advanced, the differences between the distinctions would become less and less. In a language, he says he might give words that rhyme to help in translation. "They might hit the right answer for the wrong reason, but eventually they would learn the right reason, too." Far from fearing the machine, Skinner says, "the children love it. It gives them no anxieties...