Word: starter
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Harvard 24, Air Force 1--On a cloudy morning, Harvard was anything but cold. The batsmen hammered five home runs in their season opener, while starter Charlie Marchese scattered seven hits and fanned six in nine beautiful innings of work...
Another returning starter is sophomore third baseman and cleanup hitter Lisa Rowning who led the squad in batting last year with a 400 mark...
Joining that trio as starter; on offense are Lisa Black, the squad's leading returning scorer, and Blair Wardenburg...
Enough to make Fathers Playing Catch with Sons an off-season refreshment. Hall is a bullpen man, not a starter. He is best over a short distance, writing verses about oldtimers' day ("On a green field/ we observe the ruin/ of even the bravest body") or recalling poets devoted to baseball. The game, he reveals, is not always an ennobling or enlightening muse. Walt Whitman covered some contests for the Brooklyn Eagle and in old age asked a friend if it was true that "the fellow who pitches the ball aims to pitch it in such a way the batter...
...bright spot for the Eagles, who only managed six shots on goal, was the play of backup goalie Jackie Cain, who replaced starter Sue Hughey in the second period...