Word: backstopping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parsons, regularly second-string backstop artist, will take over Hausserman's outfield duties, probably moving to right. As a result Ed Buckley, who has accounted for two of the team's five hits in the last three games, will move over into the center fairway. Barnes will probably share the left field plot with Lou Clay...
...Regan holds a strangle hold on the first string backstop job and in the outfield Ed Buckley, Lon Clay and Bill Hausserman are slated for regular work...
...familiar sights and sounds of peaceful generations. The ten acres of White House lawn turned green overnight; gaspowered, rubber-tired lawn mowers began to whir over the sward's long roll, barbering the Kentucky bluegrass to the regulation two inches. A man painted the tennis-court backstop; other men with shears trimmed the California privet hedges in pyramid style...
...Fulton's backstop post will be handled by Bob Regan while Sophomores Oscar Haussermann and Bill Parsons will take over in place of Gil Whittemore and Lee Hartstone at third base and right field respectively. Burgy Ayres or Lou Clay will get the call to start on the mound facing Ed Barry and Charlie Foster, Northeastern's ace chuckers...
...ninth inning Gleason accounted for the last two counters with a single through the infield. Captain "Pooch" Haley and Bud Waldstein formed the nucleus of the outfield while Bart Harvey, Art Scully, Bill Barnes, and Gleason filled out an errorless infield. Bob Axtell did a creditable job at the backstop post...