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Harvard's varsity baseball team faces its 100th season this year and its last under Coach Norm Shepard. Almost anything can happen...
...last year's team are first baseman and Captain Joe O'Donnell and pitcher Larry Melfa. Joe Ignacio should have little trouble filling O'Donnell's shoes, but Melfa will be harder to replace. Last year he was the only left handed pitcher on the team and this year Shepard finds himself with no southpaws...
Third base is the only unsure position in the infield. Shepard might find it necessary to use Cobb at catching as he did last year, should one of the other catchers prove inadequate...
...combat post in Viet Nam. Meanwhile, they can catalogue their copious supply of wedding gifts, including a $6,770 silver tea and coffee service from the Washington diplomatic corps, a nest of teak tables from Chiang Kaishek, a color sketch of Eeyore by Winnie-the-Pooh Illustrator Ernest Shepard (Lynda is a Pooh buff), and-from Republican Senate Minority Leader Everett Mc-Kinley Dirksen, of course-a small silver elephant...
...monologues between the songs--raps, he calls them--reflect both his warmth and his tensions. He has the rare ability to babble a stream of consciousness which is meaningful to his audience. He is a Jean Shepard, with none of Shepard's cynicism...