Word: basemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both games, Harvard will be seeing two of the tallest first basemen in the East. Columbia's Bob Bosson and Army's Mike Silliman are each 6-6. Bosson is riding a hot streak: against Penn and Princeton he went 4 for 8, hit a three-run homer, and drove in 6 runs...
...Mickey Mantle, "and Stengel made me into an outfielder in a month." When Billy Martin reported to the Yankees in 1950, his main claim to fame was that he had led the Pacific Coast League in errors by a second baseman. In 1953 Martin led all American League second basemen in double plays, set a World Series record by pounding out twelve hits in six games, including a double, two triples and two home runs...
...theories holds that batters tend to swing harder when they are ahead of the balls-and-strikes count, easier when they are behind. So he is constantly realigning the White Sox defense. "He moved me on every pitch for a whole season," one of Lopez's third basemen once reported...
...shrapnel scars, two Bronze Stars, and a card in the steam fitters' union, has done his share of knocking around-places like Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Guam, Okinawa. And when he played rightfield for the Yankees from 1949 to 1959, his specialty was knocking down double-play-minded second basemen...
...homosexual is a contemporary cocktail-party commonplace-so much so that the phrase "He's one, you know" earns points only when it is applied to third basemen, racing drivers, and Government officials of Cabinet rank. It is tacitly conceded that serious plays must be about homosexuality unless they are about racial prejudice, that all bachelors are suspect, and men with wives and children are fooling no one either. Nobody admits to loving his mother...