Word: baseman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since then First Baseman Lou Gehrig has played in every game in which a Yankee team has stepped out on a ball park. Last week he reached the total of 1,308 consecutive games, beat Scott's record. Not counted toward his record were Yankee exhibition games and 19 World Series games. During that amazing run Gehrig, who never wore a hat, over coat or vest until he was famous, has knocked out four home runs in one game (1932), 47 in a season (1927), won the title of the American League's most valuable player...
...Braves win, 3 to 1. Pitcher Hubbell's 18-inning shut-out against the Cardinals was not included in his record of 46. It began two weeks later in St. Louis when he pitched the last three innings of a game that caused St. Louis' famed Third Baseman Pepper Martin to remark: "They shouldn't bother to put the home plate down when that guy is working." Stringy, taciturn, a contradiction of the baseball superstition that left-handed pitchers are mentally erratic, it took Pitcher Hubbell a long time to start working at all. Detroit scouts discovered...
...encouraged his sons to make their own decisions, choose their own schools, plan their own vacations. Thus when his firstborn, tall, soft-spoken Curtis, finished at Hill School in 1915 he chose to enter Williams College. There he chose Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, distinguished himself as a varsity first baseman, was tapped for Gargoyle, the honor society whose roster includes New York's Governor Lehman, Massachusetts' Governor Ely. When the U. S. entered the War he chose to quit college for the Navy in which he attained a senior lieutenancy...
...base. James Carleton, pitching for the Cardinals, did almost as well until the 17th inning when he was taken out for a pinch-hitter. With Haines pitching for St. Louis in the 18th, Moore got a base on balls and scored, with two out, on a single by Second Baseman Critz...
...reach first. The next man, Kiernan, advanced Gleason with a single to place runners on first and second bases, with no outs. Loughlin sacrificed, advancing the men on bases, but the game ended when Woodruff fanned, and Murmes, who was pinch hitting for McJennett, flyed out to the third baseman...