Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bees (onetime Braves) called a group of sportswriters into his office to add an item to the Stengel legend. All of them understood that President Quinn's first two choices for manager of the Bees were Donie Bush, manager of the minor-league Minneapolis Millers, and Gabby Hartnett, catcher for the Chicago Cubs, who for a brief period last summer, managed the Cubs while they were topping the National League. But neither of them was available. So President Quinn picked up his telephone and asked the operator to get him Mr. C. D. Stengel at his oil field...
...graduation last June of such Varsity standbys as shortstop Tom Bilodeau, third baseman Frank Owen, right fielder Jim Sullivan, and center fielder Buster McTernan, coupled with the loss of catcher Al Colwell, who has left college, has left coach Fred Mitchell with a number of open positions to fill...
Heckel, Junior Varsity third baseman last year, should fit into the Varsity picture this pring. He is a steady, fast fielder but has heretofore proved pretty weak at the plate. If he can improve his hitting a place in the infield is waiting for him. Bob Fulton, Freshman catcher and captain, is a flery ball player and a potentially good hitter. He will have to work, however, for Eliot Bacon, Jayvee backstop, seems to be coming fast and by spring may really be in the running. Merrill, Freshman third sacker, is, like Heckel, another smart fielder...
...Fulton, last year's Yardling captain and serious contender for the catcher's berth, headed the Freshmen, while the remainder of the group were Jayvees...
...Second-place Detroit Tigers: a baseball game against the Washington Senators, 12-to-3 ; in which Rookie Rudy York, who got a chance when Catcher Mickey Cochrane was injured in midseason, hit his 17th and 18th homeruns of the month (August), to become the first batter to break famed Babe Ruth's record of 17 in one month (September 1927); at Detroit...