Word: baseman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Onetime second-baseman for the Chicago Cubs (1902-13), member of the double-play combination of "Tinker to Evers to Chance...
Mitch has a wide range of twirling ability ready for the game. His choice will probably rest on Dick Walsh, who tamed the Bruin here Wednesday and may see service in the Cambridge game with Yale, Drib Braggiotti, or Tom Bilodeau, slugging first baseman...
Latest aspirant for admission to the class of 1939 is Nellie Twadzik of Webster, crack first baseman on the local Barlett High School ball team. Interviewed recently, as she sat huddled on the bench with her male associates, Nellie asserted she was "taking a business course. I'd like to play ball, but what are you going to do about a thing like that." Even if some philanthropist obligingly offers to pay her expenses through college, she insists it be Harvard or Yale plus a chance to try out for the team...
Afterwards Charles E. Carr '35, of Malden, second baseman on the Jayvees, was elected to captain the team for the rest of the season...
...National League's weakest team last week appeared to be the Cincinnati Reds. Their owner, Powel Crosley, spent the winter pouring $200,000 into minor-league treasuries for new players, of whom the most promising, First-Baseman John Mize, cost $50,000. But the team will start the season with an infield of four rookies, a weak pitching staff. Philadelphia, Brooklyn and Boston are likely to finish in the second division. Among the serious contenders, most experts think the Pittsburgh Pirates, with capable but unreliable pitchers, the Chicago Cubs, with dubious pitching and an experimental infield, are too weak...