Word: baseman
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Missing from last year's team are first baseman and Captain Joe O'Donnell and pitcher Larry Melfa. Joe Ignacio should have little trouble filling O'Donnell's shoes, but Melfa will be harder to replace. Last year he was the only left handed pitcher on the team and this year Shepard finds himself with no southpaws...
...three run homer to win the first intra-squad game. Pitcher Billy Rohr, who astounded the baseball world last spring with a one-hitter his first time out in the major leagues, is back trying to conquer the control problem that sent him to the minors. And starting first-baseman George Scott is once again struggling to work off winter weight...
...season, booming out a tremendous triple to start everything off in the third inning. And Castoff Yankee Roger Maris, driving in still another run, his seventh of the Series, to prove that he's the money player everybody said he wasn't. And Second Baseman Julian Javier, batting cleanup by default during Cepeda's slump and pounding out a three-run, sixth-inning homer. Then there was Lou Brock. In six games, he had collected ten hits, stolen four bases and scored seven runs. So in the seventh he rapped out two more hits-and proceeded...
...Johnson's Chicago rivals is Ford's first Negro-owned dealership, opened in July by Cubs First Baseman Ernie Banks and Partner Bob Nelson. The industry's only other Negro dealer, Detroit's Ed Davis, got his Chrysler-Plymouth franchise five years...
...left. Scott and Reggie Smith followed with walks, and Cardinal manager Red Schoendienst galloped to the mound to talk to the tiring Hughes. No one was ready in the bullpen, so the bespectacled starter stayed to pitch to Jery Adair. Adair slammed a double-play grounder to third baseman Mike Shannon, who muffed it to load the bases...