Word: slezak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Harvard put its first runner on in five out of the seven innings, two double plays and a fine play by left fielder Slezak enabled Shoop to maintain his shutout...
...Slezak sprinted back, lunged, and grabbed the ball in mid-air on the warning track...
Yale scored its unearned runs in the third inning, when Captain Kevin Moran--capitalizing on two previous Harvard errors--stroked an RBI single to right field. Jim Slezak, the Eli runner on second base, slid home and barely beat first baseman Frank Morelli's relay throw to the plate...
DIED. Walter Slezak, 80, convivial Austrian-born character of stage and screen who specialized in plump, dastardly villains, but also played sentimental men-about-Europe, most notably the Marseille shopkeeper in Broadway's Fanny (1954), for which he won a Tony Award; by his own hand (he shot himself); in Flower Hill, N.Y. His most memorable film role was that of the deceitful U-boat captain in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944), but he may be better known today as Ronald Reagan's co-star-with a chimp-in the 1951 Bedtime for Bonzo...