Word: fielders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...having a fielder's glove custom-made for Joe Di Maggio III, aged 4^. Said he: "It's an exact copy of mine, but small. It will cost as much as mine but that's all right [since he makes a $43,500-a-year salary, Di Mag could well afford it]. Most kids have skimpy little gloves and I don't want him to have to use one of those." Di Mag even knows the time the train gets him into Manhattan's Penn Station from Baltimore, spring's last exhibition stop. Says...
Married. Henry Benjamin ("Hank") Greenberg, 35, sad-faced, Charley Horsy left fielder of baseball's champion Detroit Tigers; and Caral Gimbel Lasker, 30, horsy daughter of Manhattan Merchant Prince Bernard Feustman Gimbel (Gimbel Bros., Saks Fifth Avenue); he for the first time, she for the second; at Brunswick...
...Billy Jr., who was a promising left fielder with the Toronto Maple Leafs, became an Army Air Forces pilot in 1941, was killed last winter in a B-29 crash. It took Billy Sr. half a season to get back in stride...
...best all-round athlete was something else again. After he got the upper hand of his studies, he became the all-conquering football team's top scorer. He gave up indoor track to play on the Point's potent (won 14, lost 1) basketball quintet. As center fielder on the baseball nine, Junior won a $75,000 appraisal label from Dodger President Branch Rickey. In West Point's famed Master of the Sword test-the 300-yd. run, dodge run, standing broad jump, vertical jump, bar vault, rope climb, chins, parallel bar dips, softball throw...
...line good for two bases, the only extra-base hit of the afternoon; Roche came in to dent the plate on the hit. Wallace sent Allen to third when he got his second hit of the game, a short line drive that dropped just in front of the left fielder. Eckenroth looked at two strikes and then hit a hard ball back of second, and it looked like it was going out to center field for a hit; but the Bruin shortstop made a spectacular stop of the ball and just threw Eckenroth out at first, putting the damper...