Word: baseman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doctor advises me, because of my sinus condition, that it would be inadvisable to attempt any road trips with the club this season, so I suggested to Mr. Stoneham [Giant owner] that another manager be appointed. . . . We therefore agreed on Bill Terry [Giant first baseman, whom Owner Stoneham last spring threatened to 'drive out of baseball' when he refused the $15,000 salary offered him]. . . . I want it fully understood that Terry will have full and complete charge of the team and will have to assume entire responsibility therefor...
...pennants in a row from 1921 to 1924. Famed as a strategist, Manager McGraw assumed responsibility for every play. Once he fined a batter, ordered to bunt, for hitting a home run. He took pride in developing players. Christy Mathewson, reputed the best pitcher in history, was a first baseman on the Giants when McGraw joined the club. McGraw discovered famed Frankie Frisch at Fordham, saw him become baseball's ablest second baseman. He began training Rightfielder Melvin Ott of the present Giants when...
...Last week Babe Herman was the central figure in the most important baseball deal of the training season. Brooklyn's new manager, Max Carey, who is trying to turn a clownish collection of eccentrics into an orderly big-league machine, announced that he had traded Herman, Gilbert (third baseman) and Lombardi (huge catcher) to Cincinnati in even exchange for two in-fielders-Joe Stripp, Tony Cuccinello-and Catcher Clyde Sukeforth. In a trade with St. Louis, Brooklyn last month acquired a hard-hitting outfielder who may make up for the loss of Babe Herman -squat, red-faced Lewis ("Hack...
...young pitcher named Bud Teachout to the Cardinals, the Cubs last winter got Burleigh Grimes, famed spitball pitcher who pitched a two-hit game in last year's World Series. The success of the Giants, according to Manager McGraw, depended largely on the performance of Second Baseman Hughie Critz who hurt his throwing arm early last season and may not yet be fully recovered. The Giants new left fielder, Len Koenecke, bought for $75,000 from Indianapolis, last week made two two-base hits in a game against the Cubs...
...teams of U. S. major league baseballers have made exhibition tours of Japan since the War. The last tour, organized by Sportswriter Fred Lieb of the New York Evening Post, ended last fortnight when a team including Pitcher Grove, Leftfielder Simmons and Catcher Cochrane of the Philadelphia Athletics, First Baseman Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees, Captain Frank Frisch of the world's champion St. Louis Cardinals, and Shortstop Walter ("Rabbit") Maranville of the Boston Braves, docked at San Francisco. They had played 17 games in Japan, won them all, been seen by 500,000 people. Last week...