Word: plates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single to left field driving in Mikus. Indian pitcher Jim Shaw, who went all the way to win his fifth game of the year, helped his own cause with an opposite-field single past Crimson second baseman Dick Manchester's outstretched glove, sending two more tallies across the plate...
...Harvard hitters built up a two-run lead in the second inning but blew a chance to bust the game open in the top of the eighth, when they amassed four hits and two walks with only one runner crossing the plate...
With Jeff Hall, a good bunter, at the plate, Harvard tried to widen its 3-1 lead with a suicide squeeze bunt -- a play that won the Penn game last Saturday. But this time Hall missed, and the suicide was on. Hootstein was tagged out in a rundown, and the alert Lions caught Lord off first, to clear the bases with an unusual double play...
Singles by Manchester and Peters drove O'Donnell across the plate with the third Harvard run of the afternoon...
Though the 1967 baseball season got under way last week - with President Johnson tossing out no fewer than three balls at Washington's D.C. Stadium to make it official - the cry of "Strike!" meant considerably more to most Americans than a waist-high pitch right over the plate. It meant wildcat walkouts by Teamsters and a retaliatory lockout by employers that held up two-thirds of the nation's truck-borne freight. It meant Huntley without Brinkley, at least until the 13-day TV-radio strike was settled. It meant the prospect of a newspaperless New York City...