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...Pura took the mound for Harvard in the bottom of the first, and six men later he was back on the bench. Columbia nailed the lefty for six consecutive hits to make the score 4-3, then picked on reliever Paul McOsker for two more hits and another marker before retiring for the inning...
...impression. He cavorted up and down the court trying to follow the plays, dribbling (he was all right, no left) and shooting. Throughout the game, he was a study in motion, his bulky frame constantly cutting under the basket, twisting and turning as he does on the pitcher's mound, where his job is to confuse enemy batsmen...
...still missed Harvard--the discordant pastiche of people and philosophies, the confrontation and debate, the bid to make the world (at least your mound of it) a little more humane...
Brayton was on the mound that day, and Fred Lynn, also a college senior, was seventh at bat. Rozzie struck him out. Lynn came up two more times and never got on base; Brayton pitched "well enough to win," said the Harvard coach. But the USC pitcher pitched better, and Harvard lost, 4-1. The team dropped the clincher to Georgia Southern the following day and went back to Cambridge...
...from Quincy, Massachusetts--his background has none of the trappings of the Harvard stereotype, unless it is the very real stereotype of the local kid plucked up by Harvard athletics. With an occasional exception. Brayton says, ball players don't know or care if the guy out on the mound comes from Teddy Kennedy's final club. "I took more grief about Harvard in college leagues." Instead there are the skeptical reactions he has to face about baseball from the guardians of his old life. His parents have "gotten used to it," he says, but sometimes the old men sidle...