Word: basemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tommy Henrich and Stan Musial, at the moment baseball's leading indispensable men, are alike in temperament and talent-except that Musial cannot sing.* Both are southpaws. Both are versatile outfielders, who have filled in at first base in emergencies (and forthwith won rank among the best first-basemen in their leagues). Unlike many other stars, they are specially distinguished by players and sportwriters as "old pros," team players without ego or flamboyance...
...been picked in spring training as the most likely candidate for rookie-of-the-year (TIME, March 28), was leading the league. But the relatively unsung Coleman was runner-up. Moreover, the Yankees had a rookie first baseman, Dick Kryhoski, who was hitting .375, and a pair-of third basemen, Bobby Brown and Billy Johnson who were belting the ball...
Duke Gormley and John Ketcham, both second basemen, were on the '50 Freshman team. Bob Woodruff is a heavy hitter as well as a competent catcher, Cleanup batter Harry McKean is a veteran third baseman in the House League...
...Basemen & Bailing Wire. In the National League, there was such a shortage of outstanding individual talent that no less than six clubs had a fighting chance for the pennant. The Brooklyn Dodgers were sifting and resifting young farmhands in a frantic search for a first-baseman who could hit. The latest of a long list of aspirants: a big Irishman from the Dodgers' Montreal farm by the name of Chuck Connors...
Connie Mack, manager of the Philadelphia Athletics since 1901, reached 85, expressed a dreamy birthday wish for "new second and third basemen who could hit hard and run fast...