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...Captain Strikes Back: Captain Mike Hill broke out of a mini one-for-eight slump on Sunday. The first nine pitches he saw were all balls. He laced the next pitch, which made its way into the strike-zone, deep to right-center for a double that bounced off the fence. Hill also hit the ball hard his next at-bat, but it was caught deep in center...
...Harvard's men's baseball team broke out of an early-season hitting slump in dramatic fashion yesterday afternoon by pasting Cornell in a doubleheader at Soldier's Field...
Spain's current slump might explain an outburst of race tensions, which tends to explode when economic conditions sour. Unemployment in Spain, according to The Economist, is the highest in Europe. Yet industrial production hasn't fallen as much as in other countries, wage growth is among the best anywhere, and to my eyes most of the stores seemed to be doing brisk business. Most Spaniards, undoubtedly, aren't bigots. Something more than economic frustration, some cultural hiccup, drives the apparent dismissal of the horrors of racism...
...team-wrecking Billy Martin caricature. Moses Yellowhorse, the lunatic fireballer, haunts the ball park, and so does Eileen the Bullpen Queen, an annie so astonishingly trashy that the players remember her name. The novel flows with lovely nonsense, summer after summer, until it is necessary to give Barr a slump so that he can recover and win the Series one more time. Author Baker slumps here, just a bit, then finds his groove again...
Heading into the Ivy League Championships and the NCAA tournament in March, the last thing the squad needs now is a slump...