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When you score 36 runs in a weekend, there are plenty of heroes, but Freshman Aron Allen outdid them all. The rookie third basemen went 10-for-12 on the weekend, including a grand slam, a solo homer and two triples, drove in 11 runs, and scored seven times...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Batsmen Win Three of Four | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

That power exhibited itself for the first time this season when Allen clouted a double, two triples, and two home runs, knocking in 11 RBI's in the process. His first round tripper, in the second game against Brown, was a grand slam into left centerfield that buried and bruised the Bruins. He produced the game-winning RBI with a two-run double in the fourth inning in the nightcap against Yale...

Author: By Jonathan E. Benjamin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Straight Out of The Natural | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

...Raines demonstrated again last season that the exercise is essentially a mental one for the fans. After finances kept them from spring training in 1987, Clemens still won 20 games and the Cy Young Award, while Raines hit .330 with a four-for-five debut that included a grand-slam home run. Maybe Florida has forgotten that it is a state of mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Place for Bright Starts | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...seen distantly through the screen as if through a window, has to be matched to a targeting figure projected on the screen's surface, then moved, by minute adjustments in the plane's trajectory, to a bull's-eye pilots call the death dot. In effect, Anderson hopes to slam-dunk a basketball while racing by the hoop at 600 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Nevada: A Rodeo for Throttle Jockeys | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...told the Crimson, "You're not as good as you think you are, and went out and proved it. The Engineers took chances. Goalie Steve Duncan roamed far from his net to make saves and buy cotton candy for his friends in the stands. Graeme ("The Slam") Townshend played sheriff, backing Crimson players into the corner and reading them their rights...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Crimson Riding Road of Revenge | 3/4/1988 | See Source »

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