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Harvard freshman Julie Fromholz worked to get out of the jam as Paula Renaud lined out and Tricia Matthews hit a fly out to centerfield. Brigham tagged from third and almost got caught in a run-down, but a Beth Reilly throw hit the runner in the shoulder and bounded away. Brigham and Matylewski both scored to give Holy Cross a 2-0 lead...
...Filipino guerrillas massacred a company of American soldiers, slicing open the corpses and filling them with molasses and jam to attract ants. In retaliation, one U.S. general ordered his men to turn the island of Samar into "a howling wilderness." Samar has never recovered. Forty-one years later, Filipinos were risking savage Japanese reprisals to feed American prisoners of war marching in the notorious Bataan Death March. At war's end, Filipinos hailed the Yanks with a band playing God Bless America...
...jam-packed Flight 30 is no joyride for the crew. A major headache is carry-on baggage; one man tried to board with two VCRs. Says a flight attendant: "Some of them have so many articles of clothing on, they look like Eskimos...
...bore down, forcing Wallin to pop up to third. He got Connelly to hit a ground ball for an out at the plate. And then he threw strikes--three of them past Eagle outfielder Mike Kopfler to escape from the jam...
...Double plays. Pitchers love them when they need to get out of a jam. Hitters just want to avoid them. In 1988, which hitter led the American League in grounding out into the most double plays...