Word: shortstops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outslugged the Crimson 17-12 in hits and 6-1 in extra-base knocks. Shortstop Bob Witkowski beat Harvard almost singlehandedly with four hits, two doubles, four RBI's and one run. Pete Watzka and Captain Ed Cott combined for seven tallies...
Season hitting statistics for the Yardling squad read like batting practice reports. The entire team has seven home runs, nine triples, and twelve doubles in the seven games. Joining McGugan in the .400 club are captain Tim Bilodeau, leading the team at .474, and shortstop Art Serrano with a .424 average...
Brown's first six runs, in the first inning, followed on a questionable umpiring call. With two on and one man out in the first, a Bruin hit a double-play grounder to shortstop Bill Kelly, who fielded the ball and fired to junior Bill cherry at second...
...Paul "Papa" Houston it a pop which the CRIMSON dropped. Paul "Pro" Hemphill smacked a zinger to left. That left it up to Jon "Jugs" Yardley, who creamed a sweet pitch deep to Conigliaro country. Conigliaro being absent, the CRIMSON caught the ball after much melodrama, and then from shortstop. There was much argument with plate umpire Adam Yarmolinsky, but the CRIMSON lost...
...basics, a touch of inspiration and lots of positive thinking. "Nobody knows that little game between the pitcher and the batter better than I do," he says. At practice sessions, he stations himself behind the batting cage, shouting for Catcher Paul Casanova to choke up on the bat, commanding Shortstop Eddie Brinkman to "swing at strikes, dammit, strikes. Wait for the good pitch. And listen, the base on balls is a hell of a play." For the pitchers, there are lessons on what makes a curve ball curve. Camilo Pascual has it down pat. "Thee speening of thee ball...