Word: basemans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John A. Simourian '57 of Leverett House and Watertown was elected captain of next year's baseball team after yesterday's game. Simourian, a first baseman, was recently named to the Greater Boston League All-Stars...
Varsity baseball started well and managed to defeat a strong Michigan team, despite the efforts of the big Wolverine first baseman, Benny Oosterban. Captain Ed McGrath and his freshman nine also started well. Ed Samborski fanned fourteen as the Yardlings blanked And-over 4 to 0. The season ended just as successfully, and the freshmen squeezed out an 8-7 victory over Yale to remain undefeated. Track and crew had mediocre seasons, but both showed prospects for the coming years...
...might have gone into the record books as one of those special days-but the homer-hitters kept right on connecting. After letting his record string of home runs in successive games run out at eight, the Pirates' First Baseman Dale Long came back four days later and banged out his 15th of the season. The Yankees' Centerfielder Mickey Mantle, his batting average running well above .400, hit his 19th and 20th - and two days later the Yanks were punished in kind by a grand-slam belt off the bat of Detroit's Leftfielder Bob Kennedy...
...first time the Pittsburgh Pirates' First Baseman Dale Long came to bat in a game with the Phillies, he missed a home run by inches; his long drive to right bounced off the barrier for a double. In two more tries, Long belted two more shots that Philly outfielders just managed to grab. Then he got the range. In the eighth inning, he walloped the ball a country mile for his seventh home run in seven consecutive games, a major-league record that broke the six-game mark held by the St. Louis Browns' Ken Williams, the Giants...
Last year, in fact, from the All-Star game to Labor Day, the Phillies were perhaps the best in the National League. Then Third Baseman Willie ("Puddin-head") Jones was hurt, First Baseman Stan Lopata was beaned, and the team faltered. "You look back on a season," says Roberts, "and you see two or three games, here and there, that if you'd won might have made the difference...