Word: hitless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some look for moral messages in sprees and schneiders. Joe DiMaggio's 56- game hitting streak, the ten-year hurdle of Edwin Moses, even (perversely) the 41 consecutive losses of the Columbia University football team are considered gold stars. Regarding Brooklyn First Baseman Gil Hodges' hitless World Series of 1952, the New York Times puzzled, "If he were a drinker or a playboy, it would be understandable. But he's a fine, clean-living paragon of good behavior." When the slump carried over into the next season, Hodges became the particular project of several orders of nuns...
Keough escaped the inning without further damage, but Al Grossgouth came out in the top of the third to relieve him. Grossguth simply kept the Crimson hitless over the next 5 2/3 innings, retiring Harvard in order in the third, fourth, sixth and seventh frames...
Harvard retook the lead with two outs in top of the eighth. Co-Captain Frank Caprio broke Grossguth's hitless spell with a single and scored on Co-Captain Frank Morelli's double to make the score 3-2. Dorrington retired the Friars in the bottom of the inning to earn the victory...
Hope (1-1) earned his first collegiate win by keeping B.U. (1-2 Greater Boston League, 3-9 overall) hitless over the last three innings...
...Crimson was having trouble against B.C.'s Pat Fitzgerald. With the help of some diving catches, the Eagle righthander kept Harvard hitless for the first three innings...