Word: baseman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduation last June of such Varsity standbys as shortstop Tom Bilodeau, third baseman Frank Owen, right fielder Jim Sullivan, and center fielder Buster McTernan, coupled with the loss of catcher Al Colwell, who has left college, has left coach Fred Mitchell with a number of open positions to fill...
Heckel, Junior Varsity third baseman last year, should fit into the Varsity picture this pring. He is a steady, fast fielder but has heretofore proved pretty weak at the plate. If he can improve his hitting a place in the infield is waiting for him. Bob Fulton, Freshman catcher and captain, is a flery ball player and a potentially good hitter. He will have to work, however, for Eliot Bacon, Jayvee backstop, seems to be coming fast and by spring may really be in the running. Merrill, Freshman third sacker, is, like Heckel, another smart fielder...
Ulysses J. Lupien, Jr. '39, first baseman, was elected captain...
...Louis Browns, of which Hornsby has been manager since 1933, announced to the press that Hornsby had been ousted, along with his coach, Charlie O'Leary, and a clubhouse boy named Milton ("Alabama") Delmas. Picked to replace Hornsby was the Browns' good-natured First Baseman Jim Bottomley. Picked to replace O'Leary was Charles E. ("Gabby") Street, onetime (1930-33) manager of the St. Louis Cardinals...
Spoiling Ingalls' hopes for a shutout, the Penn third baseman, Field, gained the initial sack on a fielder's choice, reached second on Jim Hauze's liner through the pitcher's box, and scampered across the plate when a grounder skimmed through Johns legs...