Word: baseman
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Mike Lupica of The New York Daily News said it best: Everyone in baseball will play in a World Series before Yankee first baseman Don Mattingly does...
...final swing in a playoff game. A lazy pop foul to third baseman Craig Nettles. And the Yankees and Yankee fans (at the time, myself included) rejoiced their own "impossible dream...
...last day of Rose's first season, the great Stan Musial squirted a final pair of singles, one to each side of Cincinnati's rookie second baseman, and retired. For 18 years Rose deplored those bouncing balls as two hits he might not have needed to pass Musial. He thinks that's normal: "How hard is it to remember you had 170 hits your first year and 139 your second, which is only 309 your first two years, when you've had ten 200-hit years and are averaging 198 hits a season for 20 years?" Furthermore: "If you have...
...uncle signed him. Another uncle, who worked in the Reds' clubhouse, had outfitted Rose for several sweet years of sideline catches. But when Rose came back at 22 to dislodge second baseman Don Blasingame, he was shunned by Blasingame's buddies. Familiar with cold shoulders, the black players took him in. Frank Robinson remembers, "Nobody had to show Pete how to hit, but they wouldn't even show him how to be a major leaguer...
...were overanxious in the first game," third baseman Beth Reilly said. "We were sky-high, psyched and ready to play, but we tried to go beyond ourselves, We actually had too much energy...