Word: patly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other two came on Murray's solo blast that opened the sixth inning and a ground single off Alevizos by Pat Barry which plated Ron Valeri in the ninth. Otherwise, Northeastern's bats seemed content to sedately chop grounders to Harvard thirdsacker Rick Pearce, who handled eight chances with his usual flawless precision...
...contrast, baseball's owners present themselves to the public as the victims of their player's demands, forced to stand pat to prevent the total destruction of the sport by the forces unleashed by the players over the last decade. If they succeed in per-petuating that myth and gaining public support through it, the owners will ensure a long strike. In doing that they will betray player and fan alike in order to cover their own management lapses and gruesome lack of self-discipline...
...Earl Weaver got great pitching and a barrel full of ninth-inning three-run homers. The pitching, led by Cy Young winner Mike Flanagan and Jim Palmer, should be there as always, but don't look for as many game-saving performances off the bench from John Lowenstein and Pat Kelly...
...Junior Pat Gopaul, tops on the team in the 440, may be out for the season with a bad achilles tendon. And senior co-captain Kat Taylor is still coming back from the nagging leg injury that kept her off the cross-country courses last fall...
...Sybylla's love less credible. He peers from underneath his broad-rimmed hats as if posing for Gentlemen's Quarterly. His one-dimensional and completely uninspired performance clashes with the superb acting of the other characters. Robert Grubb as Hawdon is especially outstanding as Sybylla's awkward suitor, and Pat Kennedy--who plays Beecham's stodgy Aunt Gussie--is an archetypal proponent of Vicotrian mores. Don McAlpine, the director of photography, in a sense presents the most stellar supporting performance. McAlpine's love for the Australian landscape builds to an affair that he reveals on the screen in breathtaking colors...