Word: baseman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plays, and drops his long jaw and howls at the blunders, drawing happy curses all around. Wimp does not fairly describe his 5-ft. 11- in., 170-lb. appearance in this bulky company, but it comes to mind. Almost every shot Gretzky takes, Officer Whitney snares in his first-baseman's mitt, an astonishment that the goalie explains later with a chagrined smile: "I didn't even see some of them. He was aiming for my glove...
...amidst the hard times of baseball, and for the hard times of the Great Depression, came from the game. Jimmy Austin, an old Cine the Great Depression, came from the game. Jimmy Austin, an old Cincinnati third baseman, speaks for most when he says, "Golly, if I had it to do all over the only thing I'd do different would be to start sooner and stop later. It was great." It's almost hard to imagine a player today saying "golly," unless he said something like, "golly, I really think I'm worth 1.5 million a year," or, "golly...
Slick-fielding second baseman Nellie Fox missed induction by the smallest margin in the history of Hall of Fame voting. Thirty eight other former players on the ballot also fell short of being named...
...YORK--Second baseman Ryne Sandberg, who led the Chicago Cubs to their first championship in 39 years, was named the Most Valuable Player in the National League yesterday, gaining 22 of the 24 first-place votes cast by the Baseball Writers Association of America...
Sandberg, who also had two second-place votes, totaled 326 points in the balloting, easily outdistancing first baseman Keith Hernandez of the New York Mets, who finished with 195. Batting champion Tony Gwynn of the San Diego Padres was third with 184 points. Hernandez and Gwynn each had one first-place vote...