Word: basemans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shot to center, sending home the fourth run of the inning. The earlier tallies came on a single by captain John Davis and a throwing error on Charlie Ravenel's grounder, after Mouse Kasarjian had walked and George Harrington had popped a bunt single over the charging second baseman's head...
...went to bat in the first inning of an exhibition game at Phoenix, Ariz. last week. Boston's lead lasted less than five minutes. The Giants' Utility Infielder Ed Bressoud led off with a home run. Outfielder Willie Mays hit a triple to deepest center field. First Baseman Orlando Cepeda walloped a 450-ft. home run, and Outfielder Jackie Brandt followed with another homer-all off Ike Delock, Boston's winningest pitcher last year. In his box behind third base, the Giants' President Horace Stoneham smiled broadly. "This is a real team," he said...
...over the winter, the Giants took on new strength while their chief rivals sagged. Milwaukee's second baseman and sparkplug Red Schoendienst, recovering from tuberculosis, will be out of play all season, and the Braves looked unimpressive as they dropped 15 of their first 21 spring training exhibitions. Pittsburgh's second-place Pirates gave up power that they could ill afford to lose when they traded Slugger Frank Thomas to the Cincinnati Reds. In the winter trading, the Giants picked up two established starting pitchers: Jack Sanford, 29, who won 19 games for Philadelphia two years...
Butcher in Field. Thanks to good fortune with rookies, the rest of the Giant team looks solid. First Baseman Cepeda, 21, a big, amiable Puerto Rican, broke in last year with a .312 batting average, 25 home runs, 96 runs batted in ("I butcher in field," he says, "but you forget bad field when I hit"). Catcher Bob Schmidt, 25, hit 14 homers as a rookie last year. Third Baseman Jim Davenport, 25, hits adequately (.256), fielded so brilliantly in his freshman season that he is already considered one of the major's best glove men. Switched to shortstop...
...14th inning in Detroit, Nellie Fox hit a two-out, two-run home run to give the Chicago White Sox a 9-7 victory. The peppery little second baseman, who failed to hit a home run in 623 times at bat last season, connected against Don Mossi just after Sam Esposito lined a single to left field...