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...however, Cooper must be considered the A.L.'s premier first-sacker. A patient hitter who strives for continual improvement, he looked at his .308 batting average, 24 home runs and 106 RBIs of last year and wasn't satisfied. By swinging more selectively and hitting to all fields, he hoped to improve on those numbers...
Once they get here, chances are the rest of the league won't like what they find. Firstbaseman Mark Bingham (a .403 hitter last year with 36 runs batted in, second-sacker Bobby Kelley (.284 and riding a 20-game hitting streak) led a potent attack which pounded out a .282 team batting average last season and yardling sensation Brad Bauer anchor a steady infield which ranks with Navy's as the best in the league, defensively as well as with...
...game started out with Baltimore racing to a 5-run lead in the 1st inning as Pirate second sacker Phil Garner threw a potential inning ending double play grounder off the bat of John Lowenstein into left field for 2 runs...
...have to hold anyone responsible for Harvard's 19-run outburst, a good place to begin pointing fingers would be freshman second-sacker Mike Stenhouse, who a) went five for six at the plate, b) hit for the cycle and added an extra single and a sacrifice fly to boot, c) scored four runs and drove in six, and d) popped to short in the ninth. That last one was simply to show that nobody's perfect...
First baseman Bingham led all Harvard batters during the round robin with a .500 average, seven rbi's, and three doubles. Halas, playing with an injured hand, hit .438 and prompted Coach Park to remark that "He's got to be in there starting someplace." Second sacker Stenhouse drove in seven runs and hit .381 despite some shaky fielding...