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...Crimson baseball team, which has been squeaking by on one-run victories all season, ran out of luck yesterday. Leading Yale 4 to 3 going into the ninth inning, the varsity suddenly fell victim to a six-run Eli rally and went down to a 9-4 defeat...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Yale Scores Six Runs in Ninth To Upset Baseball Varsity, 9-4 | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

HANOVER, N.H., May 14--The Crimson baseball team, whose string of one-run victories has left its followers in varying states of nervous collapse all season, ventured tantalizingly close to the brink of defeat this afternoon, but held on to beat a highly-rated Dartmouth squad...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Baseball Varsity Nips Indians, 5-4, In Bid for Its First League Title | 5/15/1958 | See Source »

...Varsity rides into the game on a four-game winning streak--including three one-run victories over Columbia, Princeton, and Brown. In early season Greater Boston games, it tied Tufts, 2 to 2, massacred Brandeis, 20 to 8, and was whitewashed by M.I.T...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nine Plays Northeastern Today In Attempt to Win Fifth Straight | 4/30/1958 | See Source »

Sophomore Ken Rossano started for the varsity, in the ore-armed absence of Andy Ward, and held at least a one-run lead over the Middies through the seventh inning. He tired then, however, and Navy scored two runs in the bottom of the inning to take a 6-to-5 lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy Wallops Nine, 10 to 5, As Rossano Weakens in 8th | 4/23/1954 | See Source »

...Bobby Thomson's home run clinched the pennant, but 156 games had already been played, and Stanky had worked mightily in 145 of them. Durocher tells of Stanky's role: "To win a pennant you gotta win the tight ball games. And to win those tight ones, those one-run games, you gotta have guys who won't quit till they've won. And you've always gotta have one guy to lead those other guys. Eddie Stanky was my guy and their guy. He hated to lose. Eddie Stanky was the big difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Brat | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

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