Word: fielder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ninth inning, with the score 2 to 1 in favor of the Washington Senators, with two out and the tying run on base, Oscar Melillo of the St. Louis Browns lifted a long fly to left field. Heinie Manush, Washington's fielder, started with the crack of the bat. He dived forward near the wall, rolled over on the turf, came up without his cap but with the ball gripped tightly in his glove, a brilliant catch that ended the game and, statistically, the astonishing major league baseball season...
...earlier in the season, recently lost control. His wild pitches broke the wrists of Boston Outfielder Randy Moore and Chicago Infielder Stanley Hack. A harder hitting team and, man for man, more impressive on the strength of batting and fielding averages, the Senators this year developed a crack centre fielder, Fred Schulte, to replace Sam West whom Owner Clark Griffith surprisingly traded last spring. Their young first baseman, Joe Kuhel, is a hard hitter and usually a good base-runner though he nearly delayed the Senators' pennant-clinching last week by falling asleep on third base in the important...
Dartmouth, although at present standing fourth in the League percentages, with only three victories out of seven games to its credit, boasts the strongest batting team in he League, with an average of .276. Three of the Green players, Rich, the second baseman, Clark, the catcher, and Hill, right fielder, have batted over .300 in League contests so far this season. Today's contest should prove of interest as far as comparative statistics are concerned. Inasmuch as Dartmouth has defeated Columbia earlier this season...
...only way to reach the locker rooms from the field at Washington is through a passageway which starts just beside the Washington players' bench. When Chapman reached the passageway on his way off the field. Earl Whitehill, Washington pitcher, called him a bad name. This was more than Fielder Chapman, already humiliated, could bear. He rushed at Whitehill, hit him. Umpire Moriarty tried to pull the fighters apart but failed. This time, all the players on both teams rushed at each other not to stop the fight but to enlarge it. Private detectives, uniformed policemen and about 300 spectators...
...before, spectators had fist-fought players, managers and umpires had argued for two hours over a doubtful catch by the Millers' center fielder, Harry Rice. which, had it been allowed, might have won the game for Minneapolis and cost Col. Jacob Ruppert, owner of the Bears and the New York Yankees, his second World Series of the year...