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Garibaldi is one of several sophomores that coach Norm Shepard is counting on to improve his team's 9-13 record of last year. Another is catcher Dick Diehl, who batted .353 on the trip and won the starting assignment behind the plate...
Coach Norm Shepard views the trip as a good chance to "evaluate the personnel" and "get into condition" since the team has been restricted thus far to work-outs in Briggs Cage. We're taking 25 players and I want to see them all play, he said...
...this point, Shepard is confident of his team's chances against this year's three strongest teams--Army, last year's pennant winner, Navy, and Penn--in the battle for the Eastern Intercollegiate League title. The Eastern League, in which the Crimson finished sixth last year, includes the Ivies and the service academies...
...second problem facing the Crimson, exceptionally weak hitting, has been eased by the promising early showing of several key players. Shepard still admits the lack of a good power hitter, but he thinks that the team can improve over last year's performance, which included three regulars under .200 and a top average...
Moving now into advanced training. Glenn, Grissom and Shepard will undergo even more rigorous physical and mental testing. They will spend two hours in a superheated chamber (130° F.), withdraw into a dark, soundproof room for hours at a time to test their ability to endure isolation, and will be exposed to piercing, high-frequency noises. They will also get extra time in the capsule simulator, a grounded version of the real space chamber, where engineers will pose a variety of possible equipment failures and the astronauts will have to deal with them...