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...Only one active player was a major leaguer in the 1950s. Who is this oldtimer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Baseball Trivia Quiz: Final Examination | 5/20/1981 | See Source »

With a 25-m.p.h. headwind and midwinter temperatures putting a sting in to the plushest of batting gloves and making a major leaguer out of URI's puff-balling Ron Barber, the Harvard baseball team dropped a 4-0 decision to the Rams at Bill Beck field here yesterday...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Barber's Curves Blank Crimson, 4-0 | 4/16/1981 | See Source »

...such discussions) and to check minor-league scouting reports. Abruptly, the men exchanged handshakes, then departed to announce formally that Cubs Relief Ace Bruce Sutler had been sent to the Cardinals in exchange for Third Baseman Ken Reitz, second-year Outfielder Leon Durham and a St. Louis minor leaguer to be named later. That seemingly casual negotiation was symbolic of baseball's return to its old ways after five years of free-agent chaos. For the first time since players won the right to play out their options and sell their services on the open market, owners and executives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Splendor Among the Potted Palms | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...American League leader in runs batted in is hitting .361. Since Lou Gehrig in 1934, no American Leaguer--not DiMaggio, Williams or Carew--has hit over .360 and won the RBI crown in the same year...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Cooper Produces Without Fanfare | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...also an incompatible running mate. And even after Bush suffered a stunning defeat in New Hampshire in February, he steadfastly refused advice from some of his staff to criticize Reagan harshly, though that is the standard strategy for reviving a faltering campaign. That refusal was widely ascribed to Ivy Leaguer Bush's disinclination to get into a rough-and-tumble fight, but it turned out fortunately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Not a Cross Word Between Us | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

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