Word: homers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stewart came in and promptly gave up the big shot of the day, a three-run homer to Rich Gasinski, before settling down to keep things in single digits for the next three innings. It was the sophomore's second long relief appearance in three days, and his outings may very well be good enough to earn him a start against Eastern League opponents Navy or Princeton this weekend...
Wilhite currently holds four Columbia career records. When he poled his eighth homer of the season in a 9-0 rout of St. John's he shattered the season record of seven set 65 years ago by a sophomore named Lou Gehrig. Sixty years from now Wilhite's glove may usurp the place presently occupied by Gehrig's dog-eared mitt, which is enshrined in Columbia's Butter Library...
...bats came banging in the bottom of the eighth. Pearce led off with a hustling double down the right field line, then hung around the keystone for the next two outs before Mark Bingham crushed a two-run homer into the dirt pile over the fence in right to tie the game at three...
...metaphor of ideal conduct. "At night," he says, "I often identify myself with the pitcher who pitches a perfect game. Before falling asleep I strike out a side, then in the next inning I initiate a triple play, then I go ahead at bat and hit a homer. All these fantasies, based on the true glory of base ball! And why? Because a major league player has to be special; he must have a certain lyrical quickness and luck that belong more to the poetic than to the athletic part of life. Baseball is nearer to art because...
...time Baloff had given up Dart-mouth's only two runs of the game in the fourth (one on a homer by Mike Durham), Harvard already led 9-0 by virtue of five runs in the first, one in the second and three in the third. And guess what, only one was unearned...