Word: parke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opener Peter Bannish, last season the starting first baseman for the Crimson and this season Park's top (and only) left-handed reliever, used this day to turn in his best performance of the year. The Crimson, on the strength of the southpaw's three-inning stint, rallied from a 4-1 deficit to overtake the Elis, 6-4. Offensively, Dave Singleton shone with a 4-for-4 day at the dish, but the big play was donated by little-used outfielder Bobby Jenkins. The speedy Jenkins, yet another one of Park's adept freshmen, singled as a pinch hitter...
...Park and his team lost their grip in the second game, however, as Yale utilized Harvard starter Jamie Werly's wildness to score three quick runs. The Bulldogs added two more for a 5-1 lead by the sixth inning. But Crimson bats came alive in the home half of the sixth, which eventually found Harvard with the bases loaded, one out, and two runs behind...
Deadlocked 1-1 after the regulation seven innings had passed, the Crimson raced two runs home in the first extra frame on the strength of a triple by freshman first baseman Mark Bingham. Starter Steve Baloff, who had returned the past season from a leave of absence to provide Park with yet another strong right arm, was ready to burst his fastballs by Cornell for just three more outs. Baloff did just that, but two sloppy fielding plays, events which nobody had seemed to expect or worry about during the other 25 games of the season, were made...
...rest of the season was played out with anti-climactic results but in the same intense fashion with which it had begun. The following Monday an underrated Brandeis squad ("They proved to be the strongest team we faced all year," Park said) snatched the Greater Boston League crown from Harvard with a 5-2 win at Soldiers Field. It was the same day when Park found out that his team had not received an at-large berth for the District One playoffs, as they were overlooked in favor of Boston College and UMass, two teams that each had a record...
...Park is not a bitter man and his teams reflect the class with which they play. Harvard closed out its season with a twinball split against Dartmouth and with that the baseball season became a Cinderella story that ended just after midnight...