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Harvard got the three runs right back in the bottom of the third. Lead-off batter Fran Crowin walked and Ed Durso sacrificed him to second. Barry Cronin, who was playing in the outfield in the place of Driscoll, singled Fran Cronin to third...
Goetz returned from the Daytona with an impressive .483 batting average. In the Crimson's second game with Niagara, Sciolla belted two homers and tagged two doubles in five trips to the plate, Joyce, playing in the outfield along with Sciolla, carded a .448 batting mark as he hit safely 13 times in 29 chances...
Three men are almost locked into outfield spots but two of them might see action in other positions. Don Driscoll and Goetz return from last year's outfield and will be joined by Joe Sciolla who did not play last season but was one of the Crimson's star sluggers the year before...
...started his career as a pitcher and was good enough to win three games for Boston in the 1916 World Series. When he switched to the outfield in 1918, he almost singlehanded made baseball into a slugger's game. His home-run record has been eclipsed, of course, and also the Ruth lifetime batting record of .342.* But the Babe's 1920 season for the Yankees, during which he batted .376, hit 54 home runs, 9 triples, 36 doubles, scored 158 times, batted in 137 runs and stole 14 bases, is still the best year any major leaguer...
...seeming nonchalance, Marshall is a serious student of baseball. He keeps his own personal "book" on every hitter in the league and reviews every pitch he throws during the season, noting its type and how well the batter handled it. Unlike most other relievers, who relax in the outfield bullpen during the early innings of a game, Marshall stays in the dugout where he can study opposing batters at close range...