Word: baseman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mound again tomorrow for the Crimson nine, while the other starting pitcher will be S. W. Wilson '33, of Princeton, Last year Wilson started in the mound, facing Charles Devens '32, who held his opponents to five hits, two of which were made by H. B. Borger '33, first baseman who is now playing right field. Harvard defeated Princeton in this game by the score...
...mother, who died when he was 15. Last month, on his 30th birthday, he got almost as much from the estate of his foster father who died in 1919. To help him run his team as vice president and general manager, Owner Yawkey chose Eddie Collins, famed second baseman and coach of the Philadelphia Athletics. They planned to retain Marty McManus who managed the Red Sox ably for the last half of the 1932 season, buy up enough players to put Boston-one of the most enthusiastic baseball towns in the U. S.—"back on its rightful heights...
Died. William ("Kid") Gleason. 67. oldtime second baseman on the famed Baltimore Orioles ("I'd let 'em slide to the bag, then kick 'em and slap the ball down on their conks"); of heart trouble; in Philadelphia. After exposure of the sale of the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati...
...score was 7-6 in the ninth inning, with none out. Woody Jenson of the Newark Bears stood with one foot on third base rubbing a knee he had skinned sliding in. At bat was Third Baseman Marvin Owen, whose home run four days earlier had started the International League Bears on their victorious way for the Little World Series against the Minneapolis Millers, American Association pennant winners. Another home run now by Baseman Owen, in the Millers' home park, would put the Bears ahead, give them the series, four games to two. Owen watched one ball...
First Game. Lou Gehrig, the New York Yankees' first baseman since 1925. is a heavyset, stolid young man and one of the few professional baseballers who plays on a home town team. His Teutonic mother & father were caretakers at a Columbia fraternity house. Son Lou went to Columbia, played on the ball team, signed a contract with the Yankees. Babe Ruth coached him in batting: in a year or two Gehrig was, next to Ruth, the hardest hitter in the most potent batting machine baseball had ever know:n. In 1927, Gehrig was voted most valuable player in the American...