Word: basemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first base, Shepard will play his most promising sophomore, Al Martin. Martin was captain of the freshman team last year and played at second. "We have no experienced first basemen at all this year," Shepard explained, "so we just had to switch Martin in there...
Bunt & Brag. Held down by such deadly pitching, softball games (except when some industrial giant takes on a church-league team) are low-scoring affairs. The bunt is a favorite offensive weapon. Fast-handed fielders are always ready to charge the plate; the first and third basemen often find themselves playing just a few yards from the batter. Then the second baseman covers first, the shortstop covers third and the centerfielder takes over at second. The hit-and-run is rare, since base runners are permitted no lead...
...Berger offered a diagnosis: many of the nation's athletes, from milers to football pros to schoolboy second basemen, are gobbling "pep pills" containing stimulating, habit-forming drugs like amphetamine, commonly known as "dexies" or "bennies." Prodded by Berger, the A.M.A. voted to investigate the "indiscriminate use of these agents, particularly in relation to athletic programs...
...Engle's blunt teaching methods leave his students (30 men, seven women) precious little time for cult cultivation. "Any time you get the men in a room," says the wife of one, "all they talk about is poetry or sports. At least three of them are frustrated second basemen...
...going back to the minors," he told General Manager Gabe Paul. "I don't want to become a baseball bum." Some Cincinnati fans suggested glumly that Hoak was a bum already-as a Dodger in 1954 and '55, he had looked poor next to Third Basemen Billy Cox and Jackie Robinson. Last year as a Cub, he was an unpopular and ineffectual replacement for handsome Ransom Jackson. He hit a piddling .215, set an embarrassing major-league record by striking out six times in a single game with the Giants...