When Pittsburgh Pirates Manager Danny Murtaugh fielded Major League Baseball’s first all-minority starting lineup on Sept. 1, 1971, he wasn’t trying to make history. “I put in the nine Pittsburgh Pirates that I thought had the best chance to win tonight,” he said. The Pirates won not only that game, but the World Series the...
As the World Series games heated up a few weeks ago, so did the conversation. But the talk was not as much surrounding the games as it was a piece of jargon linked to the game of baseball: the bullpen. PETA, whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any...
In May, Jake Hoover was leading off games at the top of the batting order for the Hillsdale College Chargers. A month later, he was signing a professional contract as a member of the Texas Rangers organization. Since then, Hoover has turned successful college years into a career that college athletes can only dream of. ...
The Hillsdale College Chargers swept Ohio Valley University in four games over the weekend, outscoring the Fighting Scots 67-21 in the four contests. The Chargers put 21 runs on the board in both games of Saturday’s doubleheader, a new single-game season high. With the four wins, Hillsdale moves above .500 in the G-MAC, and is...
The Hillsdale College Chargers swatted nine home runs in five games over the course of a 3-2 road trip. The Chargers split a four-game series with the Lake Erie College Storm on Saturday and Sunday, and defeated the Saginaw Valley State Cardinals on Tuesday thanks to four home runs in that game alone. In their...