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Streak Hitting. Though once a sloppy defenseman, Rightfielder Jackson now makes a habit of circus catches and bullet throws to the infield and home. Last October Jackson tormented the New York Mets in the World Series as he led the A's in hitting and spectacular outfield defense. For his efforts, he was named Most Valuable Player of the league and the series. The awards merely underscored what everyone in baseball already knew-Reginald Martinez Jackson is the best player on the best team in the sport...
...DOCTOR STRANGEGLOVE TROPHY goes to the entire Northeastern infield for the squad's performance in its two games with Harvard. In the first game, the Huskies went into the eighth with a 2-1 lead but managed a couple of errors including a dropped pop up in the infield to lose...
...entire defensive infield for Harvard was impressive again this season and some of that credit goes to Jim Thomas who moved into the hot spot after captain Jim Stoeckel signed with the Hamilton Tiger Cats and some more to a consistent Ed Durso at short...
Juan Beniquez started it off with a chopper to third that Danny Thompson couldn't handle. Cecil Cooper lined a solid single to center, and Dwight Evans followed with another infield hit to load the bases for Carl Yastrzemski. The potato farmer hit a long sacrifice fly, easily scoring Beniquez, but center fielder Steve Brye made the mistake of throwing the ball into third behind the speedy Cooper, allowing Evans to advance to second...
...walk to bring Durso across the plate with the decisive run. Dave St. Pierre then lobbed one high into the gale wind behind second base that dropped in to score another. The play brought about more objections from the Brandeis bench, which felt the umpire should have invoked the infield fly rule on the play. As usual, however, the objections were to no avail...