Word: jim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crimson pitcher Jim McCandlish, thinking he had detected the beginning of a fad, ventured another bunt. He was right. The catcher hit him in the back with the ball and the bases were loaded. Houston then grounded sharply to the left side of the infield. The Holy Cross shortstop made a diving catch but had no play as Neville crossed the plate...
Then all McCandlish had to do was hold on. He gave up two singles in both the seventh and eighth innings, but escaped both times. The Crusaders' Bill Sexton and Jim Gravel led off the ninth with identical singles into left, but as a mob of three Harvard pitchers began to warm up, Kevin Foster popped up a bunt attempt to McCandlish. Pinch hitter Earl Kirmser then grounded an instant double play ball to third: add Houston and stir. And the game was over...
Coach Norm Shepard will probably send junior John Scott to the mound against Brandeis, and save ace Jim McCandlish to pitch against the Crusaders in Splinter Stadium...
...Cardinal official confided: "Bob could throw a ball through the side of a barn, if he could only hit the barn." Now and then, of course, he still uncorks a wild one: two years ago, a stray Gibson fastball broke the shoulder of San Francisco's Jim Ray Hart, and in 56 innings this season, Bob has walked 26 men. But now it's the catchers who have to look out. The speed of his "hummer" is estimated at well over 90 m.p.h. Sighs the Cards' Bob Decker, "You'd better bring along an extra sponge...
...Kansas' Jim Ryun, 18: a 3-min. 58.3-sec. mile, fastest ever run by a high-schooler and only 4.2 sec. off the world record held by New Zealand's Peter Snell; in a meet at Wichita. Passing the three-quarter-mile mark in 3 min. 2 sec. Ryun sprinted the last quarter in 56.3 sec., clipped 3.7 sec. off his own high school record set last month...