Word: sluggers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Luzinski prefers to direct his aggression at a baseball. "I enjoy crushing it and hitting it out of the yard," he says. His 26th home run this season, over the center-field fence of Busch Stadium in St. Louis, was hit so hard that Fellow Slugger Allen could remember only one other with which to compare it. Says Allen: "My first year in the Eastern League there was a guy who could shoot a ball high from a cannon, jump into a Jeep, drive to center field, jump out and catch the ball. One night someone asked...
...next three and a half years. Tony Conigliaro the slugger was reduced to Tony Conigliaro the night club owner. When the Red Sox let him join their spring training camp in Florida this year, the experts didn't give him much of a chance to make the team...
Former Harvard baseball star PETE VARNEY '71 will be sharing the catching duties for the Chicago White Sox with Steve Downing this season. The Chisox traded top catcher Ed Hermann this spring giving the former Crimson slugger a regular shot at the big leagues. Dartmouth's former ace PETE BROBERG pitched 6 1/3 innings against the Red Sox Wednesday as he and his Milwaukee Brewer teammates earned a 7-4 win over Boston Broberg figures to be a regular in the Brewers starting rotation...
...last vacant slot in park's lineup is the designated bitter which was left empty by the graduation of All-GBL slugger Joe Mackey. The DH spot will be filled during the Crimson's 17-game road trip in Florida over spring vacation. Whoever wields the big bat during the citrus campaign will probably get the nod when Harvard gets back to Cambridge in April...
Home-Run King Henry Aaron will soon be hanging up his cleats for the year, but the 40-year-old slugger has at least one more road trip in mind first. On Thursday Hammerin' Hank flies to Japan for a home-run hitting contest against Sadaharu Oh, 34, star first baseman for Tokyo's Yomiuri Giants. Oh has 634 lifetime home runs against Aaron's 733 and expects to pass Aaron's total one day. At their Saturday contest, each batter will select a pitcher and then use half an hour trying to rap baseballs...