Word: shortstops
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...squinted as if to flirt with a wink. Oratorically, however, he was off his game. A few weeks earlier he had read to an appreciative Harvard audience in Sanders Theatre from his new manuscript, Of A Fire On The Moon, scooping up questions as smoothly as a sure-handed shortstop, turning a few heckler's hot line drives into quick double-plays. This night, however, Mailer was less the athlete. He took a fighter's stance, to be sure, his left (or non-drinking) hand shooting out sharp jabs, a shoulder thrust forward and the curly graying head pulled...
...ready to say where it will all end. In a recent game against the Mets in San Francisco, the Giants' weak-hitting shortstop Hal Lanier poled a towering drive over the left centerfield wall that traveled at least 430 ft. It was Lanier's second homer in three years...
DeMichele sent the Crimson ahead with a high bouncer over second that scored Hurley and Bernhard. Pete Varney almost had Harvard's fifth consecutive hit, but shortstop Tom Pyrz made a great stop of a hard shot and ended the rally with a double play...
With one out in the second. Greg Stone and Chuck Hohl singled and advanced on a Villeneuve bunt. Centerfielder Chuck McDermott then hit what appeared to be a rally-ending grounder, but the ball skidded past third baseman Mike Thomas and bounced out of shortstop Art Serrano's glove...
Captain Bruce Sayler, the Indians' leading hitter, started the seventh with a single and left fielder Frank Mannarino followed with a hit. After the runners advanced to scoring position on a wild pitch. Shortstop Bob Mlakar singled to left field to send Dartmouth ahead...