Word: baseman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York last week, 37-year-old Manager-First Baseman Bill Terry of the Giants, whose left knee is now so stiff that playing baseball is acutely painful, announced that he would retire after the Series, direct the team from the bench next year. Non-playing Manager Joe McCarthy of the Yankees was photographed with his happy beer-brewing employer who pays him $35,000 a year and will get some of it back in sales of his brew at the World Series games. Owner Stoneham, who inherited the Giants from his father last January and has followed them on road...
...appeared in a mere 42. To students of pitching, however, the 42 might well be worth all of Gehrig's 1,800. Almost every one has been a pitching masterpiece. In Pitcher Hubbell's proudest record there is less than one game for every 100 of First-Baseman Gehrig's, but the record is not, on that account, the less impressive. In the long history of organized baseball, until last week only seven pitchers (Rowe, Grove, Wood, Johnson, Marquard, Keefe, Radbourne) had ever been able to win 16 or more games in a row. Last week...
...Outfielder Augie Galan to bat as well as he did last year. The Cardinals have Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean, generally rated the best pitcher in baseball, and, at second base, the ablest recruit in the league, Stuart Martin, who is not to be confused with their famed third baseman. Pepper Martin, now playing at right field...
...less than six months, those of the only two players ever chosen for an All-Star team in their first season as major-leaguers. One was Stuart ("Stew") Martin who had certainly earned his position by ousting his own manager, famed Frankie Frisch, as the Cardinals' regular second baseman. A 22-year-old North Carolinian, who last year at this time was utility man on the Asheville team in the Piedmont League, Martin's batting average of .349 for the 60 games he has played in this year has made him one of the five leading batsmen...
Hitting honors for the day went to the third basemen where Connolly and Owen gathered three for three, and Frank Nugent of the Alumni four for four. Other slugger was John Chase, graduate second baseman, who got himself four safeties in five trips to the plate...