Word: jam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Damascus' understandable determination to celebrate "the liberation of Quneitra" added more confusion to an already massive logistical problem. Thousands of Baath party faithful, as well as plain sightseers, trucked and bused toward Quneitra, their vehicles festooned with Syrian flags and homemade banners. A traffic jam several miles long stalled hundreds of official limousines, military vehicles, donkey carts and trucks piled with returning refugees, stoves, bedrolls and furniture. Red-bereted military police struggled to bring order out of chaos, occasionally shooting their AK-47 automatic rifles into the air to get attention. Reminders of the October fighting were plentiful. Occasionally...
...disastrous frame came in the fourth inning against Northern Colorado, when Harvard's vaunted defense sprang terminal leaks. After an infield error and a sacrifice, an easy fly ball to center-fielder Leon Goetz turned a routine jam into a disaster. Goetz dropped the ball for the inning's second error, then picked it up and threw to relay man Rick LaCivita. Catcher Dan Williams couldn't find the handle on LaCivita's perfect strike to the plate and Northern Colorado had a two-run stake...
...stands fragrantly like a bride at the altar, awaiting the embrace of fresh butter and an osculation of jam. It is a loaf of bread. Not the cellophaned Kleenex sold at the supermarket but a homemade loaf, crusty, crumbly and a succor for the eater...
Jakubowski struggled along, coming up with just enough to work out of each jam, until the sixth inning when Harvard got its sole tally of the contest. St. Pierre tripled after a double by designated hitter Joe Mackey to reprieve, Harvard from a second straight shutout in World Series competition (last year Georgia Southern eliminated the Crimson in an 8-0 shellacking...
...even though Harvard abruptly exited the festivities after a couple of quick dances with the regal competition in Omaha, no one can really fault the Crimson because it couldn't jam its feet into championship slippers. Harvard baseball '73 was a great story--the stuff that fairy tales are made...