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...write off the Cubs slugger just yet.? Americans love sports heroes, and in this case, Sosa's cult of personality will bring him back to baseball icon status in no time. Few players are so openly enthusiastic about the game as Sosa.? In terms of popularity, he?s on par with baseball's greatest Latin hero, Roberto Clemente, and in fact may be even more popular than Clemente was in his heyday.? His friendly spirit, community activism (he lends his name to everything from health clinics in the Dominican Republic to hurricane relief) and athletic abilities are an island...
...worth, was manager Billy Martin, a man who once took pitcher Goose Gossage aside--before a spring-training game in which he would face a black player--and told him, "I want you to drill the little n_____ in the head." Meanwhile the team's slugger was Reggie Jackson, an emerging black superstar who the previous year had hit four home runs in the World Series with four successive swings of his bat. The irrepressible Jackson, who had an IQ of 160 and quoted Frost fluently from behind his mirror shades, is the book's hilarious, hyperverbal hero. He once...
With junior slugger Trey Hendricks watching from the sidelines with a knee injury, the Crimson scored four runs in the ninth inning to overcome a two-run deficit, defeating UMass 8-7 yesterday afternoon at Fenway Park. Harvard (13-17, 6-6 Ivy) will play Boston College today at 5 p.m. for the Beanpot championship. B.C. beat Northeastern 13-7 in yesterday’s second game, and the Crimson is still stinging from a 24-6 loss at the hands of the Eagles last week...
...star. Senior Brian Lentz is one of the top defensive catchers in all of college baseball and should be a power-hitting force at the plate. Junior first baseman Trey Hendricks is the team’s best all-around player, playing duel roles as pitching ace and super slugger. Captain Barry Wahlberg can be untouchable in the role of closer...
...bottom of the eighth, after a one-out single by Salsgiver and a double Farkes smoked to deep right, the Crimson had runners on second and third with junior slugger Trey Hendricks in the on-deck circle. Princeton opted to have Princeton starter Mark Siano (2-1) intentionally walk Hendricks, loading the bases, and face Lentz and Mann head...