Word: player
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Donruss demonstrates once again that it doesn't appreciate the game or the tradition of baseball cards. Cards are such a part of the national pastime because they unify the romance and the science of baseball. A card's front should make the player a hero, and the back should provide all his statistics for those who read box scores every day. Donruss has fallen short on both sides this year...
...background to the player photo is a weird blue art deco pattern that belongs in MOMA, not the AL and NL. At least most of their photos are much more professional than in 1981, when you couldn't tell Dick Tidrow from Dennis Lamp from Captain Caveman because of the Instamatic photos. Unfortunately, their 1988 photo of Kent Hrbek still has all the sharpness of a crayon drawing...
...back, Donruss only traces a player's performance back to 1983. That's fine for Chris Bosio, Brewer's reliever, but it's unconscionable for Fred Lynn or Gary Carter (himself an avid card collector...
...Players of the Week: Yale sophomore Chris Swanenburg had 25 saves for the Blue, including 10 in the final quarter, and earned the nod as the men's lacrosse Ivy League Player of the Week...Chris Conforti had a goal and an assist to also earn Ivy League men's lacrosse Player of the Week honors...Karen McFadden, who tallied six goals and assisted on four others as she led the Quakers to a 15-5 victory over the Elis in New Haven, was named the women's lacrosse Ivy League Player of the Week...Penn's Doug Smidt...
...until senior year, I also had the misconception of science students being "intense" or "grindy." Soon after I began interviewing students and professors in these disciplines, however, my ideas about science students drastically changed. The students I spoke with had enormously varied interests and backgrounds; there was a football player from Hawaii, a female violinist from New Mexico, the captain of the Harvard men's sailing team, a Canadian woman active in nuclear war deterrence, a female ROTC member whose sister fights fires in Chicago, and a gregarious Black woman engineer who is involved not only in many campus organizations...