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...sportswriters called him the Brown Bomber, the Dark Destroyer, the Sepia Slugger, the Mahogany Maimer, the Chocolate Chopper, the Tan Tarzan of Thump. These were far more than sobriquets. As Chris Mead observes in his enlightening biography, Champion, Heavyweight Joe Louis Barrow could never be a mere titleholder. He was always an emblem...
Team officials are facing the challenge. "We have to do an awful lot of work in the black community," says manager Frank Robinson, the former slugger who was the first black major league skipper. He plans to visit schools, YMCAs and business leaders to hype baseball. The Nationals have set up a foundation to promote and fund baseball and mentoring in inner-city areas. The contract that brought the team to Washington even stipulates that the Nationals engage with the community and offer free tickets to city kids. "The key for the Nats is to integrate themselves into the social...
...sophomore double-play combination of Lauren Brown and Julia Kidder steady the defense up the middle and young gun Danielle Kerper looks to be the Crimson’s slugger of the future...
Thanks to the continued hot-hitting of freshman slugger Steffan Wilson, who knocked a 2-1 pitch into left field for the team’s first RBI single, Harvard rallied for two in the fifth...
First-year slugger Steffan Wilson collected three RBI on two hits as the top of the Crimson order scored all five runs in a 5-3 Harvard victory...