Word: baseman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second inning Foxx hit, low and long. In right field, Blades of St. Louis lunged for the hit as it bounced off the wall. He hurried his throw and dropped the ball. Foxx went on to third. Later, in the sixth, hard-hitting Third Baseman Dykes of the Athletics hit a two-bagger with a man on base. Center Fielder Douthit of the Cardinals had the ball in his hand, but Gelbert hesitated relaying it to home plate. The chance of catching Bishop was lost and the Athletics had another...
Fielding. The Athletics have "the best catcher in the world"?Mickey Cochrane. The Cardinals have Frankie Frisch? probably the best second baseman, who has played in five world series. Connie Mack's famed defensive infield (Foxx, Bishop, Boley, Dykes) is about as efficient but certainly no more so than Gabby Street's (Bottomley, Frisch, Gelbert, Adams...
...Hauser, first baseman for the Baltimore "Orioles" (International League): the home-run record of the world; by hitting his 61st of the year in a game with Newark. Previous recordist: George Herman ("Babe") Ruth of New York, who made...
National League. The batter dug his spikes into the dust beside the plate, pulled down his cap, swung back to wait for the first pitch. It was Woody English, wiry Chicago third-baseman, coming up in the tenth with one out and the score tied. At the crack of his clean single the record crowd, spreading down over the grandstand terraces into roped-off areas along the sidelines, began to stir and shout. Kiki Cuyler lined out to Hendrick but then Hack Wilson hit safely and Taylor smacked the ball into the overflow crowd at the right, bringing...
Edmund Lowe was captain and first-baseman of a Santa Clara University baseball team which included Artie Schaeffer, Harry Wolters, Benny Kauff, all later big leaguers. He graduated from Santa Clara at 18, became a Master of Arts and member of the faculty at 19. College dra- matics had made him interested in acting and after a part in The Brat with a Los Angeles stock company he went to Manhattan, stayed there six years playing leads on Broadway. On his big ranch in the Santa Cruz mountains he breeds hounds and recently burbanked a new vegetable, a combination...