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...teammate, sophomore pitcher Chris Carr, joined Reilly on the All-Ivy First Team...

Author: By John B. Roberts, | Title: Crimson Senior Stars... and Junior Jewels... Named All-Ivy | 5/22/1991 | See Source »

...vice presidency calls up its rueful folklore. "Cactus Jack" Garner of Texas, F.D.R.'s Vice President from 1933 to 1941, did not say the office was "not worth a pitcher of warm spit." He said it was "not worth a pitcher of warm piss." The line is almost always cleaned up for the civics class. No one has improved on Mr. Dooley's formulation: "Th' Prisidincy is th' highest office in th' gift iv th' people. Th' Vice-Prisidincy is th' next highest an' th' lowest. It isn't a crime exactly. Ye can't be sint to jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strange Destiny Of a Vice President | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

...Bennett is a good pitcher," Durand said. "He has a great fork-ball...Next year, though, they're [Harvard] going to win those one-run games...

Author: By Josie Karp, | Title: Big Green Sweeps Batsmen | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

...could blame Nolan Ryan for feeling the cold chill of his own mortality as he braced himself to start his 711th game in the majors? Sure, Ryan bestrode the baseball record book like a colossus, with more strikeouts and more no-hitters than any pitcher in history. But decay is an inevitable stage in the human condition. And Ryan was facing the powerful Toronto Blue Jays, whose youthful lineup included three players who had not even been born when the Texas Rangers' star broke into the big leagues back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wizard Of Whiff, Sultan of Swipe | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

...Crimson's second game against Brown, however, was not nearly as close. Once again the Crimson's bats were frozen as Bear ace Juliana Blaser surrendered only two hits to the Crimson, one to pitcher Julie Fromholz in the first, the other to Beverly Armstrong in the fourth...

Author: By Deirdre Mcevoy, | Title: Batswomen End on Winning Note | 5/8/1991 | See Source »

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