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...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...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Jumbos Cut Batsmen Down to Size, 5-4 | 4/18/1978 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World of Steinberg | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Batsmen Chill Dartmouth, Sweep Twinbill | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...bunchmeister on this day was first baseman Mark Bingham, whose three-run homer to right field in the sixth pushed home all the runs that starter Larry Brown needed to buoy the victory...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Brown Twirls Crimson Nine Past UMass, 3-2 | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

Knoll, who replaced Stenhouse early in the game (Sten batted .428 in the tourney), literally took his place, as the junior went 3 for 3 and blasted two round-trippers. The other hitting star in the Crimson's 15-hit barrage was Halas, who popped another two-run homer. On the mound Baloff got his second win, going only four innings and giving...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Batsmen Tan Foes in Florida | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

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