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Starter Jim Walker wasn't exactly throwing smoke either. In the first inning he surrendered a leadoff single to Dave Singleton, a fielder's choice to Paul Halas, a double to Leon Goetz and a three-run homer to Harvard offensive her Dave Knoll before retiring the side. Not an auspicious start...
...Manzione triple keyed a three-run rally in the fourth, and Bauld (again) smacked a two-run double in the next frame in the midst of a six-run upheaval. Catcher Tom Paccico finished things off in the sixth with another two-run double, and calculators on the scene did the extensive arithmetic needed to keep track of the Lion runs. In the final analysis, it was Columbia 19, Harvard...
Werly's last walk of the day, delivered to the next-to-last man he faced, filled the bags one last time, and Dave Greenfield then cleared the bases with a three-run triple. Eight to nothing, and a farewell to Harvard's beleaguered starter...
Singles by Peter Bannish and Knoll sandwiched a Peccerillo sacrifice (currently on sale at Elsie's for half price) to put runners on first and second, and preceded base hits by Tommy Joyce and Cote, which gave Harvard a three-run lead and a seeming lock on victory, as Clifford was getting stronger as the game progressed...
...voted the Series' most valuable player, "it had to be the greatest World Series game in history." Indeed, aside from Fred Lynn's numbing collision with the centerfield wall after barely missing a long Ken Griffey fly, at least three Red Sox feats outdid Hollywood. There were Pinch Hitter Bernie Carbo's eighth-inning, three-run homer that tied the game; Rightfielder Dwight Evans' game-saving catch of a Joe Morgan drive in the eleventh; and, most Homeric, Catcher Carlton Fisk's game-winning home run in the twelfth...