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...practice should come during the squad's eight-day, nine-game junket to Florida that begins tomorrow After spending his first two seasons as an infield handyman with the junior varsity and varsity. Chicarello found a home last year as Harvard's designated hitter, and for the first time he heads for Florida with a spot in the lineup just about sewn...

Author: By Bruce Schonenfeld, | Title: Chicarello Fit and Ready to Hit | 3/25/1982 | See Source »

Nahigian will take a look at some different combinations for his infield on Florida, Returnees Gaylord Lyman and all-Ivy selection Brad Bauer will start the trip at second and short, with freshman Tony DeCesare getting a look at short stop later on and Bauer moving to second. The edge at third base belongs to freshman Scott Vierra, with another freshman. Elliot Rivera, chipping in around the infield...

Author: By Bruce Schonenfeld, | Title: Chicarello Fit and Ready to Hit | 3/25/1982 | See Source »

Athletics are another important aspect of a summer proctorship. In fact, a surprisingly large proportion of your colleagues are members of varsity teams. You've got the infield of the women's softball squad, most of the gridders' starting secondary, and the middle-distance runners of both sexes. All of this is, of course, the result of a wholly impartial selection process, in which the written applications of all those interested are given careful scrutiny...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Looking Out for the Harolds | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

...great infield indeed, and mighty fine homage. But doubts are raised. The straightest story in the book is also a very good one-an account of a 17-year-old boy named Don, who, following normal teen-age tropisms ("I know you hate to see me playing rock 'n' roll,/ But Mom, I gotta break your heart to save my soul"), performs in a punk rock band whose acts feature the musicians biting the feathers off a live chicken. The group is successful, naturally. Hallelujah, except that Don, a nice, decent fellow, realizes queasily at the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Main Street's Shy Revisionist | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

...happy to inhale it by the cubic yard. But it comes flirtatiously close to novelizing, a practice Keillor claims in a funny preface to have forsworn after one grotesquely bad unpublishable failure. He writes short pieces, he says, in homage to The New Yorker's former great infield of James Thurber, A.J. Liebling, S.J. Perelman and E.B. White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Main Street's Shy Revisionist | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

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