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...first game was as tough as trying to hit a Lee Smith fastball blinfolded with a toothpick. Rowning and Yale pitcher Amy Wolberg exchanged doughnuts for seven innings. The defensive plays were just as sparkling, as players were lunging and hustling for line drives and fly balls...
Faced with a 6-0 deficit, the Crimson began an improbable comeback against tiring Army pitcher Ken Toney. Caprio drove in Greg Agran and Dan McConaghy with a double and scored on a single by first baseman Rich Renninger to cut the lead in half. But Toney settled down, yielding just one more run in the seventh to get the complete-game victory...
Harvard touched Army starter and losing pitcher Shannon Smith for three runs in the first on a double by Caprio and a two-run single by Renninger. McConaghy provided the rest of the offense that Hope needed with a homerun and a sacrifice...
Robinson was handed the worst team that came along, the Cleveland Indians, and made it respectable. But he was still considered a little volatile. While a player-manager, he socked a Toledo Mud Hens pitcher, who, upset at having been cut by Robinson, nearly beaned him in an exhibition game. Fired within three years, Robinson reappeared in San Francisco, where in 1982 he managed the languorous Giants into the last week of a pennant race. This time, snatching an occasional jersey in anger, he lasted only slightly longer. The word was that Robinson could not communicate with the modern ballplayers...
Harvard's hitting game was complemented by a commendable performance by Harvard pitcher Lora Rowning, who allowed only five hits, one of them a homerun...