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Lion ace Bart Barnett held the Crimson to just four hits and seven baserunners over seven innings to earn a shutout win. Harvard never had more than two runners on base in the same inning and no Crimson player got as far as third base...
While he had been a terrific player for ten years, known as a lethal base runner and horrible loser, Robinson was considered a little volatile. One famous night at a diner, he showed a pistol to a quarrelsome cook who was directing Robinson's attention to a meat cleaver. The lithe outfielder -- marked down as "an old 30" by Cincinnati management -- was dispatched to Baltimore, where that watershed summer he hit .316 with 122 runs batted in and 49 homers, not including the one that won the Orioles' first World Series. Over the five prosperous seasons that followed, his competitive...
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...
...Deep down inside," says Joe Morgan, the black second baseman whose splendid career wound down with the Robinson Giants, "I think it's true that he was hoping for and expecting more from us. We all like to say we give 100%, but a baseball player can always take another step somewhere along the line. The black players weren't fair to him in Cleveland; I'll leave it at that. And ! some of our guys let him down too, if you want to know the truth of it. When I heard about the Baltimore job, I almost sent Frank...
...children of the deposed manager. Billy Ripken, 23, the second baseman, quietly exchanged his uniform number for his dad's. "I don't want to see anyone else wearing it," he grumbled. On the timing of their father's dismissal, Shortstop Cal Ripken Jr., 27, said, "As a player, I don't have an opinion. As a son, I'll keep my opinions to myself." Baltimoreans are especially worried about Cal Jr., the American League's Most Valuable Player of 1983, who went 0 for 29 at one stretch in the Orioles' slump. His contract is up this season...