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...There was a swamp in left-center," said center fielder Ellen Jakovic. "If a ball had landed there it-would have been difficult to pick up." Third baseman Pat Home agreed, noting that although the infield was fine, "they were catching polywogs out in the outfield...
Questionable umpiring ultimately doomed the Crimson in the seventh With one out and two runs in, an infield rule was called on a play which would have left the Common with everyone sale and the bases loaded. Faced with two outs instead, the Crimson loaded the bases before losing this game...
Some say to watch the California horses, but those are the people who are going to be boozing it up on the infield all afternoon. The hot tip from the Connecticut panhandle is that "all the good horses are hurt--everything's up in the air." Finally, for those who plan to place bets around Cambridge. Wayne Meisel says Secretariat has a good chance...
Because she learns so well, Jakovic can adapt to almost any position on the field. She began her softball career in high school as a catcher ("Why,. I don't know"), moved to the infield as a Harvard freshman, then developed into an excellent center field over her sophomore and junior seasons...
...friends from Cincinatti chatted quietly of Bernie Carbo and Johnny Bench and the Big Red Machine. Another brought up the Dodgers and that infield of Garvey, Lopes, Russell and Cey that seemed to play together forever as the boys in Freeway Blue rolled through the late '70s. For my part, I just rambled back to first grade and those Amazing Mets of 1969--Al Weiss, Tommy Agee, Cleon Jones ("You remember what happened to Cleon?" --the back seat of that car, those drugs, that woman...