Word: southpaw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mark Harris, 50, has always worked a vein of comedy bordering on moral outrage. Even his pastoral baseball nov els of the '50s (The Southpaw, Bang the Drum Slowly) were brushed with sad ness. The undertone of finely controlled anger that ran through Harris' early works grew, in the '60s, into the hectoring shrillness of a prophet scorned...
...doubleheader with Army on Saturday should follow much the same pattern as the game with Cornell--very good pitching and weak hitting. Mel Brinkley, the Cadet ace with a 4-1 record and 1.10 ERA, and Rod Tetrecka, a southpaw with a 1.09 ERA, have the call to pitch in the two games. The team ERA, 1.51, is the nation's lowest...
According to Marion, the Yale squad is a "pretty good team" and the match should be close. The Elis are strongest in the sabre where Yale has three fairly competent southpaw fencers to offer...
Captain Peter Briggs was unmovable from the center as he nonchalantly blew Ephmen captain Bill Simon off the court in the top match, 15-4, 15-8, and 15-8. The southpaw intercollegiate champ put on a show running the Williams captain all over the floor and dazzling the crowd with behind-the-back and through the legs returns of Simon's best shots...
...Crimson lineup will be the same, with southpaw intercollegiate champ Peter Briggs anchoring the top spot, and rounded out by Andy Wiegand, Glen Whitman, Neil Vosters, Rob Sedwick, Archie Gwathmy, Pete Blasier, Fred Fisher, Steve Mead, and Tim Morgan...