Word: baseman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Competing in the outfield are veteraus, the erratic Malcolm R. McTernan, Jr. '37, David B. MacIntosh '37, Owen, or possibly James Sullivan '38, who was used last year as a substitute first baseman...
Allen, who prepared at Exeter, was a guard on Dick Harlow's team this year. He was also a starting guard on his Freshman eleven, captain and defence on his Freshman hockey team, and first baseman and leading batter on the Freshman baseball nine. Last season has was a regular on the Varsity hockey team and won a major...
...liberty until the baseball season opens next spring. First Baseman Lou Gehrig of the World Champion New York Yankees offered himself to Hollywood film producers for the role of Tarzan, hitherto acted by Swimmers Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe. Dressing up in a leopard skin for Manhattan cameramen, Yankee Gehrig threw out a hairy chest, crowed: "It may sound like a screwy idea to you guys but I'm serious. . . . I've always hustled at everything I've taken up. ... I'd give it all I have. I'd even wrestle lions." Cornered by news...
...used five pitchers. Every Yankee including Pitcher Lefty Gomez had made at least one hit and one run. Baseball statisticians had compiled an even dozen new records. It was the biggest score and the worst beating in World Series history. Most brilliant individual performance was that of Second Baseman Tony Lazzeri. He duplicated a feat accomplished only once before in a World Series when, in the third inning, he made a home run with the bases full. Later, he shared with Catcher Bill Dickey the honor of equalling another all-time record, by driving in a total of five runs...
...Yankee enthusiasts retaliated with the argument that the Polo Grounds, where the grandstands are nearer to the plate than in the Stadium, would suit home run experts like Gehrig, Joe Di Maggio, Bill Dickey. Hired to sign stories for Hearst sport pages, Pitcher Hubbell and First Baseman Gehrig met in the syndicate's office in Manhattan. Said First Baseman Gehrig: "This fellow Hubbell . . . isn't much on conversation...