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...Grown-up men start going for the balls as well, scaring off the poor youngsters. I kid you not--in the bottom of the sixth, with the score 2-1, a Northeastern player fouled a pitch back into the stands to the right of home plate. One ambitious youngster proceeded to run after the sphere...
...Forneiros was able to hold out--and hold out is the right word for it, as evidenced by a strange, late-inning wild-pitch seizure, and the Huskies mustered two more runs in the seventh to notch...
...know they (Northeastern) hit the ball well," Irving said. "So we're going to have to pitch well, and avoid any defensive lapses...
...With the wind blowing, the breaking stuff was going everywhere," Lancette said. "Bryan did a tremendous job blocking the plate in those conditions. He also threw out a runner trying to advance on a wild pitch...
...French writer named Denis de Rougemont attended a Nazi rally in Nuremburg and recorded a stunning experience. The long-awaited arrival of Adolf Hitler threw the crowd into a frenzy. Screams of delight mounted to a ferver pitch as the man drew nearer, until the surging mass of the people gave way to utter hysteria. Rougemont felt something uncontrollable stir within him--the thrill of mass hysteria--and so powerful was the feeling that he almost succumbed. But something withing him rebelled. Ionesco relates Rougemont's story with curiosity in his notes from November 1960; "just then...