Word: rbis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning. After starring in four sports for Anderson, S.C.'s Westside and Hanna high schools, Rice signed with the Sox and spent four years in the minors. In his last year at Triple A in Pawtucket, R.I., he led the International League in batting average, home runs and RBIs, a performance that made him minor league Player of the Year. When he joined the Red Sox full time in 1975, he was 22 and a born star. From the third week of the season until he broke his finger at season's end, Rice was Boston's starting leftfielder...
...need some help from the hitters, though, and left-fielder Mike Stenhouse leads that group. "Sten" ended up at .426 for the year, and .500 in league competition to win the Eastern batting title. Stenhouse, who went 23-for-42 at the end of the season, also had 36 RBIs and ten HRs, the latter tying Pete Varney's Harvard record...
...Crimson shut Cornell out the rest of the way but could not overcome the first-inning deficit. Santos-Buch was the hitting star, going two for four with three RBIs, while Stenhouse, Jim Peccerillo and Burke St. John each chipped in with two hits in the losing cause...
Statistically, the playoffs will give Stenhouse a chance to break a couple of Harvard records. The sophomore slugger needs one more homer and six more RBIs to break the respective season and career marks held by Pete Varney...
...were the game results and offensive outbursts, the bat stars for Penn were the same in both contests. Centerfield stud Tom Olszak was the big guy, going four for six with five RBIs and four runs scored. Earl Rom, Al Greenfield, and Dennis Karbach were also conspicuously damaging...