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...throw was high, and I had to leap for the ball. Thinking I could still tag Pat, I slammed my mitt down on the plate. I jammed my thumb instead...
Fortunately, it wasn't broken, but it was really swollen and had to be heavily taped. I didn't catch in the last game of the season. Coach wanted to rest my thumb so it would heal for the playoffs...
...post-season rolled around, and we were perhaps the best team in the league next to the Apollos. Coach wanted me to catch in the first-round game against the Comets. I told him that the thumb still hurt and I would have to see how it felt on game day. He still penciled me into the lineup...
...championship eights, only hardcore fans remained--meaning those who actually knew something about the sport and the athletes. One, a would-be crewbie, side-lined by a crushed thumb in a weight-room accident, kept screaming, "Go Columbia...
...NOTEBOOK: Junior forward Anne van Dykum sat out with a broken right thumb...Loren Ambinder, van Dykum's substitute, played against her twin sister Leslie...Harvard's next game is scheduled for Saturday at Soldier's Field at 11 a.m. against Dartmouth, the defending Ivy League champion...