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...star was undoubtedly junior Elizabeth Walker, Harvard's starting pitcher. In addition to faring well on the mound--she issued only one walk, while striking out two in the game--Walker proved mighty with the stick. She led off the second inning batters with an outside-of-the-park home-run, breaking the 1-1 first inning...
...When Brad, one of the white coaches, arrives at their field early in the season, "most of the Kikuyus were already there, loosening up their arms by tossing rocks at the El train." A two-level pecking order develops; there are the Busters, who are physically hopeless, and the Home-Run Hitters, who are prima donnas. As the summer swelters on, a couple of the Busters have growth spurts and become Home-Run Hitters. The Kikuyus win some games and even learn to execute the cutoff play. They earn a little pride and frequent slices of pizza (coachly bribes...
Just as free agents are unlikely to beeliminated from baseball. courting of starprofessors is unlikely to end anytime soon.Scholars may not be commanding multi-milliondollar salaries yet, but universities willcontinue to try to lure the home-run hitters ofthe profession to their teams
Hank Aaron's autobiography, I Had a Hammer (HarperCollins; $21.95), written with Lonnie Wheeler, is as much a provocative primer on baseball's race relations in the 1950s and '60s as it is a superstar's account of his triumphant march to breaking Babe Ruth's all-time home-run record. Aaron, who spent much of his career overshadowed by mediagenic players -- both white and black -- like Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, can claim with some justice that he was belittled by stereotypes. "Because I was black, and because I never moved faster than I had to, and because...
Born Stanley Kirk Burrell, he picked up his stage moniker from A's players who noticed his resemblance to home-run king Hammerin' Hank Aaron (the M.C., added later, stands for Master of Ceremonies, rapspeak for band leader). After a two-year hitch in the Navy, Hammer borrowed some start-up cash from a couple of A's outfielders to launch Bustin' Records. He couldn't play an instrument, and he sang with more enthusiasm than finesse, but his first album, 1988's Let's Get It Started, produced three Top 10 singles. And those hits have just kept...