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...last spring, a football prospect from Philadelphia was inspecting the green expanses of Soldiers Field. He almost tripped over a rock near the now-deflated bubble, and, as he cursed what seemed so out of place on a playing field, he found that the stone was a dedication marker commemorating a former Harvard great who seemed totally insignificant to the high school recruit at that moment. "One thing about this place," he said. "Every god damn thing has some guy's name scratched on it somewhere...
...oddest marker of all can be found near the City Hospital on Mt. Auburn St., an inconspicuous tablet that reads: "ON THIS SPOT IN THE YEAR 1000 LEIF ERICKSON BUILT HIS HOUSE IN VINELAND." The stone was placed on the left bank of the Charles in the 1880s by Eben Norton Horsford, then Rumford Professor of History Emeritus. His painstaking research led him to believe that the Northmen were familiar with Boston Harbor and the Charles, and that Cambridge was Vineland itself...
Harvard wasted no time getting started, opening with a six-run uprising in the first inning. A double by Leigh Hogan plated Jimmy Thomas, who had reached on a walk, with the first Crimson marker. Dan Driscoll, starting his first game in left field, capped the rally with a clutch two-run double, scoring Mackey and Ric LaCivita, who had both singled...
Cincinnati Pitcher Jack Billingham threw a fastball-which, he later admitted, got away. An instant later, Aaron's home-run ball No. 714 cleared the 375-ft. marker in left centerfield and bounced into the hands of a startled policeman, Clarence Williams, who was patrolling an alley between the field and the stands. "I'm just glad it's almost over with," Aaron said after the game was stopped so he could be presented with the ball returned by Williams...
Leading 2-0 entering the final period on goals by Hozack and Bob Lindsay, the Crimson put the game away as Hozack picked up his second and Jeremy Winterstein added an insurance marker late in the stanza...