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While rain and mud may hold back a ground and cause fumbles, the usual fear of an offense under such conditions is interceptions. For Harvard, the ground game never got cranked up and quarterback Burke St. John was forced...
...St. John's three-for-ten showing in the first half was commendable in view of the conditions especially considering that he threw no interceptions. A 15-yard bullet to Rich Horner brought the Crimson to within the field goal range for Dave Cody's 41-yarder and another pass to Bill McGlone took the Crimson deep into Brown territory at the 15 to set up Cody's second three-pointer...
...tough to grip the ball," St. John understated afterward. "Under those conditions, you sort of have to sling-shot...
...fool. The management that traded him to Montreal, that benched him during the gasping stretch of the 1978 season in favor of Pawtucket sweetmeat, was. With more than 50 years worth of cameras and newsclips and Causeway St. anecdotes, there's Tris Speaker, Babe Ruth, Sparky Lyle, Ernie Shore, Dutch Leonard, Duffy Lewis, Cecil Cooper, the heroes whose promise was traded for cash or mediocrity. Back, further into the piles of faded photographs and daguerreotypes of old-looking men in baggy, dusty uniforms, there's Lou Boudreau, Luis Aparicio, Orlando Cepeda, Ellston Howard, the heroes that Red Sox management fielded...
...YEARS LATER this memory couldn't have been farther from George Scott's eyes, or closer to Carl Yastrzemski's. Like one man. One frustrated, effaced, proud, loser of a man, whose endless beers never turn to champagne in the Causeway St. bar after the game, after the seasons, ever since 1918. Up on the wall behind the bartender and mountains of bottles are portraits of Tris Speaker, Babe Ruth, Lefty Grove, Ted Williams, Jim Lonborg, Carl Yastrzemski, and John F. Kennedy. They all got away...