Word: clean-up
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...team prepares for the trip there is a question about who will play first base. Regular first sacker Phil Bernstein, the team's clean-up hitter, has been having his problems for the past few weeks and injured his leg in the ill-fated Holy Cross expedition earlier this week. Should Bernstein not be available, the choice will probably fall on Jim Mullin, a lanky junior who has seen limited action this season...
Hoffa either ignored the board's clean-up recommendations or evaded them by appealing to higher courts-with significant success. He also stalled. The former Hoffa-appointed monitor, Daniel Maher, started skipping meetings. His successor, William ("Buffo") Bufalino, a Hoffa crony and head of a Detroit Teamster local that was described by the Senate rackets committee as "a leech preying on working men and women," started walking out of meetings. Strangely, insurgent-appointed Monitor Lawrence T. Smith was hard to find when meetings were called, and he accused Chairman Martin F. O'Donoghue of being obsessed with "getting...
...Crimson has one of the best catchers in the league in Captain John Davis. Over vacation he stopped four attempted steals with his throws to second and hit 355, batting in seven runs. He will be batting in the clean-up position this afternoon...
Mike Ippolito of football fame will take over first and batting clean-up for the Tigers, although under normal conditions he's a pitcher. Centerfielder Tom Morris, another carry-over from the gridiron ranks, is likewise one of the Tigers' leading hitters...
...lacrosse game intervened to save the tie for the Crimson in the tenth. Jumbo clean-up hitter Joe Crowley blasted a long drive far out into centerfield and into the midst of an adjacent lacrosse match. The hit, which ordinarily would have been as easy home run, was limited to a ground rule double, and Scheiner retired the side without any scoring...