Word: centerfielders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mayor Impellitteri enters through centerfield gate. Crowd busses. Joe Louis enters behind him. Crowd roars. Big group accompanies ex-champ as he make long walk to ringside seat. He stops before sitting down and talks to Joe DiMaggio escorting a blonde...
...infield practice began, a man squeezed into the aisle next to us, in the deepest right centerfield bleachers, leaned over to the left to hear a very noisy conversation which had continued through the speeches, even through the National Anthein. "One hundred to sixty," he said...
Pitcher Robin Roberts set the Brooks down in five hits and turned in a masterful job of clutch pitching in the ninth when he stopped the Dogers without a run after loading the bases. Earlier in the inning, he was aided by a great throw by centerfield Richie Asbhurn who cut down Cal Abrams at the plate, as the latter attempted to score the game-winning run from second on Duke Snider's single...
...then Duke Gormley smashed a drive to centerfield. Ed Foynes moved into position fast and it looked like it would be good for only one base. A last minute bobble provided the undoing, however, and as Foynes struggled with the ball, two runs scored. Seventh, Walsh singled and went to second when shortstop Dowd threw badly. A wild pitch advanced him to third, and he scored on Myles Huntington's blooper single over second base...
...about the "up the middle" strength of his 1950 Yardlings. Tomorrow's team will start with Chuck Wade catching the right-hander Bob Ward. Backing them up will be the smooth-working combination of second baseman John Canepa and shortstop Walt Greeley while little Bob Smith will be in centerfield...