Word: fielder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prospects for the season are dimmed by the fact that only eight veterans out of 20 from last year's team are available. They are: Captain A. J. Lupien '32, left field; Reginald Fincke, Jr. '32, catcher; R. D. Kiernan '33, substitute fielder; J. P. McCaffrey '32, center field; E. A. Mays, Jr. '32, second base; J. E. Sheldon '33, catcher; H. W. Taylor '33, pitcher; W. B. Wood, Jr. '32, shortstop...
...Centre Fielder John Leonard ("Pepper") Martin of the St. Louis Cardinals; for his performance in the 1931 World Series against the Philadelphia Athletics: an Associated Press poll of experts on "the outstanding individual achievement in sports." Second was U. S. Tennis Champion Ellsworth Vines. ¶Primo Camera, gargantuan Italian pugilist: a judgment for $63,017 against his midget Anglo-French manager, Leon See; for moneys which Camera had earned in what most U. S. experts considered fraudulent boxing exhibitions and which, according to Camera, See had invested, without his permission, in fraudulent gold mine stock...
...Athletics beat the Cardinals four games to two in last year's World Series, should be favorites again this year. Ninth pennant-winning team of Philadelphia's lean 68-year-old Manager Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), the Athletics are handicapped by an injury to hardhitting Centre-fielder George William ("Mule") Haas. They still have a powerful offense, headed by Catcher Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, First-baseman James Emory ("Jimmy") Foxx, Outfielder Aloysius ("Al") Simmons, and the best pitching staff in either league. Best right-hander is George Livingston Earnshaw, Swarthmore graduate (1923). Best left-hander is Robert Moses...
Ticknor was the leading Harvard batter, making two triples and a homer out of five times at bat. The powerful left fielder scored three of his team's 10 runs himself, and in addition drove three more scampering across the plate. Mays also hit well, collecting three safe blows out of four times at bat, while Wood added a triple and a single to the Harvard total of hits...
...fielding, the team does not show so well, several loose games having brought the team mark down to 904. McCaffrey Sophomore center-fielder is the only regular with a clean record for 1.000. McGrath, however, who has been handling the second and first base positions is fielding for .905. Last year McGrath was playing 1.000 ball but batting only .310 after nine games had been played. Later he took the Wendell bat as the team's most valuable player. Sheldon's average is .970, Ticknor's .955, and Wood...