Word: centerfielders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, with the count two and two, Joe Shcehan smashed Godin's next pitch into right centerfield for three bases, scoring Winkler. Dick Mills' base hit into left brought in Sheehan with the winning...
...tell what a funny man he was. They obviously couldn't do him justice: his kind of deadpan, spun-out comedy was hard to describe. Grinning with happy memories, the columnists tried to tell how funny it was the time Casey purposely disappeared into a manhole in centerfield, or the time Casey tipped his cap to an umpire, and out flew a sparrow...
Neither could the Yankee batters. The background was an orange canvas curtain draped over the wire fence in centerfield (to spoil a free view for passers-by). The ball came out of that background and was on top of the batter before he knew it. By the seventh inning, not a Yankee had collected a hit. Murry's Cardinal teammates began to treat him just as if he were pitching a no-hitter in the regular season -when it counted...
...guess football players don't blossom in the summer," remarked Cox balancing delicately on one palm. By way of illustration, downfield on the Varsity baseball diamond, Chip Gannon was uncorking 150 yard passes. Standing behind home plate he was reaching centerfield with alarming consistency...
...changed man. One day this week, his shoe-button eyes agleam and his squirrel teeth clamped, Giuseppe stepped up to bat. A pitched ball hit him, but he spurned the umpire's offer to take first base. Then he banged out homer No. 14 high over the centerfield fence, 402 ft. away. Everybody was beginning to talk, too, about his superb fielding, running, throwing. Such spring training carryings-on were usually reserved for rambunctious rookies-not the great Giuseppe Paolo ("Joe") Di Maggio of the New York Yankees...