Word: pennant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Polo Grounds as they began the vigil for euphoria of the kind that the Pirates brought to Pittsburgh in 1960. This spring, with the Mets playing almost 500 ball and outdrawing the Yankees, the management is beginning to act like the Yankee management. The Mets might win a pennant sooner this way, but they will lose their true friends, and not even their new escalator-equipped stadium will lure the secure Yankeephiles...
...with reckled abandon at the plate. Gavin Gilmont the Crimson's diminuative but efficient centerfielder, has been the only other remarkable hitter on the team. On the whole, however, Harvard's offense has been unpredictable and at time even non-existent. In their second league game, the Crimson pound pennant favorite Navy, 9-1. The new weekend, the varsity just barely score two runs in as many games again Northeastern and Columbia. then Crimson bats have shown of reawakening -- and after all, Harvard needed only three runs to be Cornell last year when Garibaldi...
...Rucker's heroics, it looked for the first seven innings as though the Crimson were about to lose the game and its chance for the Greater Boston League pennant. A tall Engineer lefthander named Harold Branson baffled the hitters with a steaming fast ball and a slow curve until his own wildness betrayed him in the late innings...
...Crimson baseball team, which virtually eliminated itself from a chance at the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League pennant by losing to Brown Saturday, has a good chance of picking up a non-league win when Harvard tackles M.I.T. at Kindlestick Park today...
...loss to Brown just about ended the Crimson's hopes for an E.I.B.L. pennant. Prior losses to Penn and Columbia have left the team with a 2-3 league record, and wins in the remaining league contests could make the Crimson's mark no better than...