Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guts the Crimson infield has hurt. The returning infielder, Terry Bartolet, been his usual magnificent self, taining a batting average well over 300 for most of the season. Sophomore Tom Bilodeau has shown occasional brilliance at short and has been pelting the ball 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...
Terry Bartolet, who, like everyone else, had a fine day at the plate, kept the eighth inning from being anticlimactic by rapping out another homer that scored...
...that eighth inning, Crimson hurler Dick Garibaldi retired the first man to face him, but then gave up his only two walks of the afternoon, putting the winning run on base. Princeton's captain Don Fudge, who had a double and two singles in previous trips to the plate, then lined a single to right, scoring one and tying the game. A strikeout followed, but Larry Schoenfeld, the Tigers' right fielder, hit one of Garibaldi's offerings to center field, driving the winning run and one insurance run across the plate...
...each in the fifth, sixth, and seventh innings. Hits for the top of the order were scarce. Tom Bilodeau went two-for-four, but the other three of the first four hitters managed only one hit among them. Givin Gilmor picked up three singles in five trips to the plate, and Dick Diehl and George Sargent, batting seventh and eighth respectively, each went two-for-four. The failure of the usually big hitters to come through or even to get on base hindered the Crimson's offensive efforts considerably...
...Steel is promoting tin-plate food cans that, with a handle added, also serve as cooking pots. The aluminum industry is trying to win a bigger share of the 9.5 billion-can beer market (20% of all cans made in the U.S.) with tab tops and all-aluminum cans; it is also putting out orange juice containers with tab tops. Pushing both paper and plastic, Container Corp. is marketing a handy "bag-in-a-box," a six-quart or ten-quart polyethylene sack of milk inside a cardboard box, which sits in home refrigerators and dispenses milk through a plastic...