Word: southpaws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senior southpaw Larry Brown, coming off a disappointing final season at Harvard which ended with a loss to Cornell that knocked the Crimson out of the playoff picture, was drafted in the 14th round yesterday by the Houston Astros...
Stenhouse started the eighth-inning rally with a two-out triple (his second of the game, sixth of the season) to right-center off Tufts southpaw Art Georgeu. Jumbo coach Bill Samko then made the mysterious decision to intentionally walk Harvard cleanup hitter Mark Bingham, a left-handed batter, to get to Peccerillo, a righty who had stung the ball all day and had--unbeknownst to Samko--been hitting .500 the past week...
Down 8-2 after the second, 10-2 after the fourth and 12-2 after the top of the sixth, the Crimson simply could not muster the offense to stage a miracle comeback. Columbia's southpaw Tom Whelan, a lefthander with an 0-5 record, a 7.46 ERA and an array of pitches that weren't fat, but chronically obese, closed down the Crimson attack until a pitifully late rally in the bottom of the seventh pushed across three runs...
...Huskies matched three of those four runs, though, capitalizing on Stewart's inability to locate home plate. The junior righthander yielded only one hit, but he hit one batter and walked six others before coach Alex Nahigian yanked him in favor of southpaw Paul McOsker midway through the third inning...
...wildness issue is not. After a brilliant football and baseball career at Verdugo Hills High School in Los Angeles (the San Francisco Giants drafted him after graduation) Keyte came to Harvard a few pounds overweight and lacking in concentration. In 24 1/3 innings pitched as a freshmen, the southpaw yielded 26 walks and 14 earned runs...