Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Johnson is Clean-up Batter...
Captain Johnson who is perhaps the leading hurler and batter on the Brunswick team, will hold down the shortstop position this afternoon. Two two-baggers and a triple made up his share in the Colby game and he will bat in the clean-up position. Robinson is just rounding into shape after a bad start this year. He is credited with the recent win over Bates and will try his offerings on the University nine this afternoon...
...Freshman team will have to play well today to keep their record clean when they journey to Andover to meet the Phillips Academy net men at Andover. Although the Academy lost many of its most valuable players, including Captain Gordon of the Freshmen, through graduation last spring, the schoolboys are still reported to be dangerous...
Worcester, Academy sent at well-trained, clean-fielding and hard-hitting nine to Soldiers Field on Saturday and forced the 1927 team to acknowledge a smarting 8 to 4 defeat. The defeat was humiliating because the Freshman led until the last two innings, when six runs rained from the visitors batz overwhelming the Freshmen...
Peter Kelley of the Advertiser and Roger Birtwell of the Post took the other view. Mr. Kelley said, "To be sure it was a hard hit ball, but it bounded squarely into the center fielder's hands and reasonably clean fielding would have stopped it. I don't claim to be an authority, but I've seen a lot of baseball, and I certainly would call it an error." Mr. Kelley was formerly secretary of the Boston Braves and is a member of the Baseball Writers Association...