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Brown relinquished four hits to the Engineers, who could not solve his puzzling low fastball. After a shaky start, Brown removed the roundhouse curve from his repertoire, and forced harmless groundballs with his knee-high hummers which were gobbled by the all-freshman Crimson infield...
...Brown fastball to raise the home team's hopes. But Brown neatly ended the frame as he forced clean-up hitter Dan Sundberg to ground to freshman shortstop Burke St. John to start a 6-4-3 double play around Harvard's Kiddie Korps infield...
...moment Park is impressed but cautious with the play of his young team. "Our defensive infield and our base running are our strengths right now. Overall, we're as far along as I thought we'd be, but we've got a long way to go. It's gonna take a lot of patience...
Rawlings Co. now makes the official major league baseball after a 101-year Spalding reign, and the scuttlebutt is that Rawlings is turning out a rabbit ball. Says Cincinnati Reds Batting Coach Ted Kluszewski: "The ball moves faster through the infield." Adds a baseball executive: "Lay it in the lettuce patch, and it hops...
...Park doesn't mind having an infield of kids just getting over their confirmations. "Hey, they're the best kids out there, and they're really going to help us defensively. I've been really impressed with their cool and maturity," Park said...