Word: knapp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard had scored early off Brandeis starter and winner Ken Knapp, who, in combination with the uncertain weather conditions, really did put the sitting room only crowd of 18 to sleep. Dave Singleton's double and a Leon Goetz sacrifice fly one out later had given the Crimson its 1-0 first-inning advantage...
...Knapp refused to yield any further courtesies, however, limiting the Crimson to five assorted hits the rest of the way, two of them doubles by Goetz in the third and eighth innings...
Given this second life, Knapp threw goose eggs into the fifth, at which point, with the Judges having just assumed the lead, the rains came--not hard enough to call off the game, but hard enough to drench the field and everyone else who didn't have an umbrella...
...Knapp, though, remained undaunted, and continued to baffle the Harvard hitters, who, with a doubleheader against a 4-24 Dartmouth team on Saturday and a little bit of luck, may not reach .500 for another week...
Nadjari, 51, had compiled a reasonably good record. He became known as a superb prosecutor during 20 years in New York City and nearby Suffolk County before then-Governor Nelson Rockefeller named him special prosecutor in 1972. The post was created in the malodorous wake of the Knapp Commission hearings on official corruption in the Big Apple, and Nadjari was given extraordinary powers. A Democrat-turned-Republican, Superprosecutor Nadjari went on to indict 296 persons on various charges of corruption. He won guilty verdicts against one district attorney (later reversed) and a number of lesser government officials. No fewer than...