Word: baseman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Exeter academy nine, which defeated Andover seven to six. He was one of the heaviest batters on the team. He passed his examinations for Princeton at the end of that year but did not enter college until the fall of '87. In the spring of '88 he was first baseman on the Princeton nine and last year he again occupied that position on the team. His fielding, batting. and base running have always been strong. He has played on the Cape May nine during the summer and, with all his experience, will probably put a strong nine into the field...
...team were obliged to commence play in a pouring rain storm and on grounds upon which it had been raining steadily for two days. Around the catcher's, pitcher's, short-stop's, and baseman's positions were large pools of water...
...Yale freshmen made fewer errors than Harvard, but the hitting was weaker. Jones pitched a steady game up to the tenth inning when he gave two men bases on balls. His infield support, however, in that inning was not good, the second baseman making two costly errors...
Harvard was first at the bat. Wood got his base on third baseman's error, stole second and third, and came home on Evans' long fly to centre. Harvard shut Yale out on a pretty double play by Wrenn and Carpenter. Hale made a two base hit for Harvard in the second inning, and scored on Cummin's pretty single to right field. Ivison scored for Yale on a base hit, and a passed ball by Hale who had a finger broken. Harvard was blanked in the third. She went to pieces with Yale at the bat, and four...
...first inning neither side scored. In the second, Carpenter and Bell got their bases on balls, Neff and Cummin made hits and five runs were scored, Curtis getting first on the first baseman's error. Brown in their half made two runs. Throughout the rest of the game Harvard increased their lead and won easily. Harvard '92 played well throughout and batted well considering that the Brown 'Varsity battery played. The outfielding was brilliant and the catching of Bell deserves mention. Appended is the score...