Word: rucker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will pitch for the Crimson this afternoon is an open question. Possible choices are Tom Rucker and Dick Garibaldi. Paul Del Rossi, who pitched nearly six innings Saturday and may be saved for a more important contest, and Dick Garibaldi, who is plagued with a sore arm, seem less probable. The rest of the starting line-up should remain the same as it was against Princeton Saturday...
That role unquestionably belonged to Tom Rucker, who didn't give up an earned run in 5 1/2 innings after M.I.T. jumped on starter Bill Guzzetti for four runs in the first two frames...
...Rucker's heroics, it looked for the first seven innings as though the Crimson were about to lose the game and its chance for the Greater Boston League pennant. A tall Engineer lefthander named Harold Branson baffled the hitters with a steaming fast ball and a slow curve until his own wildness betrayed him in the late innings...
Curly Combs led off the Crimson fifth with a homer, and in the sixth Mike Patrick singled, moved to third on a walk and a fly ball, and scored when Ferrari misplayed Rucker's grounder...
...Rucker, taking over in the tenth for Garibaldi, went two innings and picked up the victory. Dick Walsh, B.U.'s reputed wonder boy, was charged with the loss...