Word: aparicio
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...Lute Aparicio has played more baseball games at shortstop than any other human being extant or otherwise. The number of steps he has run on a major league diamond is beyond compilation, if not beyond belief. On Monday night in Detroit he took the step that will be remembered more than any of the other countless millions for after two decades of brilliant fielding, masterful base running and nearly 2,500 career hits. Lattle Luts, the Veaezuelan wonder, fell down...
...curve that hung over the dish for the reborn Carl Yastrzemski. Yaz placed the ball over the dish for the outstretched arm of Mickey Stanley in the cavernous Detroit center field. Harper crossed the plate with the tying run as Yaz steamed into third base. But the coordination of Aparicio had deserted him in this one crucial moment. Little Luis fell down, crawled back to third base with the go-ahead run, to greet the ecstatic, then horrified, yastrzemski. The pennant was AI Kaline's, as he would prove the next...
Boston scored its run in the third, but the Red Sox were deprived of a bigger inning when Luis--Aparicio tell down rounding third base Iommy Harper had singled and taken third on Aparicio single, before scoring on a 420-foot double by Carl Yastrzemski
Boston manager Eddie "the Fox" Kasko directed practice in Fenway Park yesterday with 21 of his 25 regulars on hand in preparation for today's game. The only absentees were shortstop Louis Aparicio, southpaw pitcher Rogelio Moret, righthander Martry Pattin, and reserve infielder Phil Gagliano...
Newly-acquired Tommy Harper will lead off and play center field, followed by Aparicio at short (providing, of course, that he doesn't get lost in the itinerary shuffle between Venezuela and Detroit...