Word: homerically
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...after a 1-3 Eastern League weekend and having to play catch-up ball all afternoon. Trailing 11-9 in the top of the ninth, the Crimson needed some offensive fireworks as well, and got them from Ed Farrell and Bruce Weller. The Harvard first baseman powered a solo homer over the right field fence to lead off the inning, and Weller drove the Crimson ahead with a one-out, two-run double into the gap in left center...
...coming "closer to being the ultimate offensive yardstick than anything before it" and which shines in its utter simplicity. To figure Total Average, you add up all the bases a player has accumulated for his team. Count two bases for a double, three for a triple, four for a homer, and don't forget to add in walks, stolen bases, and hit-by-pitches. "All bases. "Boswell notes imperiously, "are created equal." Then add up all the outs a player has made, including, thank you, the number of times he was thrown out stealing and counting two for each double...
...Tigers, now 5-5, are a bunch of EIBL also-rans who didn't even manage to sweep Dartmouth on Saturday. Yet, powered by a Paul Steinhauser three-run homer in each game and the six-hit, eight-strikeout pitching of Holly, they pulled off one of those minor miracles that seems to happen somewhere in the Eastern League every weekend, and before you could pause for a commercial message. Harvard was being written out of the EIBL script, 1-3 in the league and 3-7 overall...
...trying for Marcum and his few reporters. Countian reporters have been stonewalled and physically attacked by county officials, and once, when word got out that the next issue would captain names of all voters who had entered the voting booth in pairs, the Times ran a banner headline proclaiming "Homer Marcum Buys 16 Votes at Pigeon Roost...
Before the Huskies could get three outs. Harvard sent 10 men to the plate, accumulating six runs of five hits. Chicarello's three-run double in the second and Bauer's two-run homer in the fourth provided the remaining key hits in a game where Harvard scored at last twice In every inning...