Word: fielders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fitzgibbons is the best Sophomore fielder and batter and is one of the finest prospects in Crimson baseball history. Other strong hitters in the same class are Sandy MacMillan and Al Everts...
That should have satisfied Brooklyn fans. The series had been a hair-raising standoff. The Dodgers were still one and a half games in front. For the September homestretch, they have an easier schedule than the Cardinals. They proved that they can match St. Louis slugger for slugger, fielder for fielder. They have the best pair of pitchers in the league in Kirby Higbe and Whit Wyatt, who have already won 36 games...
...pitch was bad. So was the second. Joe walloped the next one but it landed just outside the foul line. The crowd moaned. Joe got set again. Crack ! At the sound, 8,700 fans rose once more. The hit was a honey; it went sailing, sailing, over the left fielder's head, into the lower left-field stands 400 feet away...
Harvard is undoubtedly well out of that game because Yale will be weaker this afternoon. Center fielder Howie Kaye and catcher Jack Schroeder had to leave for Chicago directly after the game for Naval Reserve work. They will not play today, and in addition, Coach Wood may be embarrassed for lack of pitching depth. He has Joe Wood Jr., who went nine full innings Tuesday, Ted Harrison and Ames. Harrison's arm has bothered him for some time, and he probably will not pitch. Thus, the whole load will fall on Ames, who may not be equal to the occasion...
...bagger in the first frame, rang the bell for the first Crimson run. John Mussolini of Brown, however, took the batting prize for the day, with a record of four hits for four trips to the plate. Other successful Crimson bat-swingers were catcher Bob Regan, Art Scully, center-fielder Ed Buckley, third-sacker GII Whittemore, and right-fielder Bill Parsons, each of whom is credited with one hit for the afternoon...