Word: baseman
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Wicker Park Elementary School. The money has been used to set up highly popular courses in cooking, darkroom techniques and computer science. The Los Angeles Dodgers have adopted the Solano Avenue Elementary School near the stadium, sending in such stars as Second Baseman Steve Sax and Pitcher Fernando Valenzuela to talk about developing good habits. Says Dodger Coach Mark Cresse: "You know how kids are. Their parents can tell them 100 times that they should study, and it goes in one ear and out the other. If a Dodger tells them, believe me, they listen...
Said Keith Hernandez, the St. Louis first baseman, as he came off the field after that interminable sixth game: "I'll tell you how long the game was. I was 28 when it started, and I'm 29 now." It was after midnight, his birthday. When Hernandez opened the series batting 0 for 15, it put people in mind of another forceful first baseman, the late Gil Hodges, who went 0 for 21 for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1952 series. But Hernandez stoically declared, "You have to have a strong mind to play baseball." He got seven...
...Hall of Fame curator collected the black bat that Brewer Third Baseman Paul Molitor used to lash a record five hits in Game 1. Milwaukee's marvelous Shortstop Robin Yount, the only player in the 79-year history of the World Series ever to have two four-hit games, was glad to chip in. He does not save things. When a Milwaukee fan caught his home run in Game 5 and tried to give the baseball back, Yount told him, "Why don't you keep it? I'll sign it for you." As the man floated away...
...Diego Padres beat the Atlanta Braves for the Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants beat the Dodgers for the Braves. In the dugout getting ready to hit in the seventh inning, 39 and not so sure that this would not be his last at-bat ever, Giant Second Baseman Joe Morgan said he got to thinking of Ted Williams. (Do running backs ever break from the huddle thinking of Jim Brown?) In his final at-bat in 1960, Williams homered at Fenway Park. The Boston fans clamored for Williams to come back out of the dugout and take a final...
...When he hit the third one, and I was sure nobody was looking," Dodger First Baseman Steve Garvey said, "I applauded into my glove...