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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final game was close, 15-12, but ended Harvard's hope for victory and the regular-season title...
Last weekend, with a 4-1 conference record and the same Possibility of winning the regular-season title, Harvard again faced Yale and Brown...
...wattage. Bernie Williams, the most talented member of the ball club, is a jazz-guitar player in a rap world. He's a nice guy, but he's not exactly being courted by William Morris agents. When Bruce Springsteen visited the Yankee clubhouse toward the end of the regular season, he gave Williams a signed guitar. When reporters asked Williams if he had given Springsteen an autographed ball in return, Bernie had to tell them that Springsteen hadn't even asked...
...Yankees nibbled their way to massive leads, 50 come-from-behind victories and a league record 114 wins in the regular season, with a .714 winning percentage. Then in the play-offs, facing better teams, they improved, at 11-2, to an .846 winning percentage. This team can find competition only from earlier Yankees: in 1936-39, or Babe Ruth's 1927 squad. But those teams were whites-only, shielded from the dominant players of the Negro Leagues; today's players comprise the best of the entire world: blacks, Hispanics, Japanese pitchers who can't speak English, the entire Dominican...
...CUBS: The only team ever to have won more regular-season games than this year's Yankees (116), and they did it in a shorter season. But the game played by the Cubs of Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance--the game everyone played until Babe Ruth came along--was a rough scramble for runs made of walks, bunts, stolen bases and singles. The Cubs' top power hitter, Wildfire Schulte, managed all of seven home runs, typical for the era. If a club like this one had to play the highly evolved 1998 version of the game, it would be bashed...