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This one could have featured the Greater Boston League's answer to the Hank Aaron-Sadaharu Oh home run contest, with Harvard slugger Mike Stenhouse taking on B.C. strongman Greg Stewart. Stenhouse provided his share of heroics during the game, banging out three hits, but Stewart's bat remained relatively quiet...
...Notebook: Word has it that one of reserve slugger Dave Knoll's two homers against Mt. St. Mary's College last Friday was not exactly a prestigious clout. Seems that a 70-year-old man caught the Chinese round-tripper bare-handed as it cleared the fence...
...nightcap with St. Lawrence was the Crimson's closest and perhaps best outing of the trip. It was a scoreless affair until the bottom of the seventh inning when first baseman Mark Bingham walked and then scored on reserve slugger Dave Knoll's double...
Defeat came to Muhammad Ali, and with it the ghosts of a Miami night. Sonny Liston had been a tired man, worn by poverty and prison. At 35, he was old for a fighter?even for a slugger who stayed put and blasted. He got into the ring with a strong, fast, young Cassius Clay, who had nothing to lose and a crown to gain. Last week Muhammad Ali was a tired man too, pummeled in the ring for 24 years?amateur and professional. At 36, he was old for a fighter?especially for a boxer who must move...
...score, bases loaded, two out, ninth inning, full count. Let's see what you got," barks the Red Sox' greatest slugger, Ted Williams. Cincinnati Reds Star Hurler Tom Seaver tosses a pitch, and Terrible Ted trots calmly to first base. The scene at Williams' alma mater, Hoover High School in San Diego, will air in the spring on the syndicated TV show Greatest Sports Legends, to which Seaver is playing host this year. At lunch in Manhattan to pitch the show, Williams, 59, who in his heyday earned $125,000 a year, defended today's well...