Word: sluggers
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...Sunday’s game against Cornell, he had been playing through pain in centerfield. Vance denied that he would opt for surgery this early in the season, saying he planned to resume his normal place in the lineup for the rest of the season, probably at DH. Departed slugger Zak Farkes ’06-’07 battled a similar injury early in his Harvard career, undergoing surgery in the summer after a 2003 sophomore campaign in which he set the Harvard single-season home run record. In Vance’s absence, the Crimson managed only...
...Gossage has steadily gained ground. Nearly 65% of voters gave him the nod this year, and no player with that level of support has failed to get in eventually (players need 75% for induction, and can remain on the ballot for 15 years. Rice, the ex--Red Sox slugger, also notched close to 65%). "Dominance at a position in your time is the best indication you're a Hall of Famer," says Jack O'Connell, 57, secretary-treasurer of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. "I don't think there's any question that the dominant reliever in the American...
FILED SUIT. BARRY BONDS, 41, slugger for the San Francisco Giants; against the authors and publishers of Game of Shadows, which claims Bonds took steroids for at least five seasons; in San Francisco. Instead of suing for libel, his lawyers seek to block authors Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams from profiting, arguing they "illegally obtained" the grand-jury testimony on which the book relies. Judge James Warren said Bonds was unlikely to prevail and denied his lawyers' request for a temporary restraining order on the book's profits...
...bats of the typically explosive Crimson lineup—and most conspicuously that of sophomore slugger Steffan Wilson—were unusually quiet through the trip to play NYIT last weekend. Sophomore Tom Stack-Babich picked up some of the slack, however, tallying two hits in each of his last three games...
...degree cold last week. “The dirt was like playing in a sandbox. [This weekend] we were getting sunburned, but we were all loving it.”The Gators once again played without 2005 Southeastern Conference (SEC) Player of the Year Matt LaPorta, a slugger who has missed time since straining an oblique muscle in February. The sputtering Florida lineup, which had been partly responsible for the team’s freefall from No. 1 in the Baseball America national rankings last month, flexed its muscles against the Crimson’s pitching, rapping out 38 hits...