Word: leaguers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Little Leaguer's impulse to imitate led naturally to Joe DiMaggio, a Yankee with whom I found it easy to identify. Or at least as easy as it can be for a black kid from Brooklyn to identify with a white man playing for the white flag-bearer of a segregated sport...
...being a professional baseball player. I once mentioned something to my father about it, and he said, "Ain't no colored ballplayers." There were the Negro Leagues, of course, where the Dodgers discovered Jackie, but my mother, like most, would rather her son be a schoolteacher than a Negro Leaguer. All that changed when Jackie put on No. 42 and started stealing bases in a Brooklyn uniform...
With one out, Mager waited out Breslow, working a walk, then harassed Breslow into an errant pickoff throw and moved over to third. Keck tripled him home with yet another opposite-field base hit, and scored himself when Huling blooped a Texas Leaguer over the third-base...
...With one out, Mager waited out Breslow, working a walk, then harassed Breslow into an errant pickoff throw and moved over to third. Keck tripled him home with yet another opposite-field base hit, and scored himself when Huling blooped a Texas Leaguer over the third-base...
...batters later, Teller looped a Texas leaguer over second base that plated Amberg, and Teller took second when Holy Cross pitcher Genoa Grosch failed to cut off the throw to the plate. Teller scored Harvard's second run when freshman utility player Sarah Koppel roped a double off the leftfield fence...