Word: shakir
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Mostly known for his defense, Shakir had gotten the starting nod in the first game of the series after bone chips sidelined regular Peter Woodfork ’99, but he had a less than spectacular outing. Shakir struck out twice and made an unsightly throwing error on a ground ball to second...
When Woodfork was declared healthy enough to play in game two, Shakir sat. He wasn’t expecting much better when he arrived at the ballpark for the decisive third game—especially when, upon first glancing at the lineup card posted in the clubhouse, he saw Woodfork’s name penciled in at the top of the order...
...name, batting ninth at DH,” Shakir said. “It was the first time I had ever DH?...
...Shakir may have been surprised—“I was the last guy on the bench for most of that year,” he says—but Walsh recognized a hot bat when he saw one. After earning a surprise start in the second game of a doubleheader against Yale that April, Shakir went on a late-season tear that raised his average...
...Shakir rode that hot streak into the postseason. In that crucial at-bat against Princeton, he lofted the second pitch over the drawn-in infield for a two-run single, giving Harvard the lead—and the title...