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Before the crack of Pesky's bat hitting infield practice or the smell of cigar that for some reason is only tolerable here or the damp, salty, Fenway frank or the shove for autographs around the dugout, it's the green that hits you, and your eyes that tell you that you're back...
...reaction of Co-Captain Steve Ezeji-Okoye told the whole story. While the Northeastern runners were prancing around the ITT track, the Crimson middle distance standout was sitting on the infield banging his head against the ground...
...behind. Before leading off in the first game with San Diego, Centerfielder Bobby Dernier consulted Shortstop Larry Bowa. "When do the butterflies go away?" he wondered. "After the first pitch," Bowa replied, so Dernier hit the second pitch over the leftfield wall. Speeding from first to third on an infield out, he eventually scored the opening run in Game 2 as well. Then the butterflies, San Diego and especially Steve Garvey came back...
...inning single to Don Slaught. Wilcox who did not complete any of his 33 starts this year, got a second-inning run on an RBI-forceout by Marty Castillo and made it stand up, walking two and striking out eight in eight innings. Hernandez allowed the final hit, an infield single by pinch hitter Hal McRae with two out in the ninth...
...rest of the contestants? Had they all dropped out, or were a number of them milling around outside the tunnel on Vermont Avenue trying to get in? Or even more poignant-were these exhausted men simply trying to persuade a gate attendant to let them down into the infield so they could watch the festivities with their fellow athletes? The gate attendant would be firm. "Got to have a ticket...