Word: first-baseman
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...brightest new man in camp is catcher Gene Oliver, who hit a three run homer to win the first intra-squad game. Pitcher Billy Rohr, who astounded the baseball world last spring with a one-hitter his first time out in the major leagues, is back trying to conquer the control problem that sent him to the minors. And starting first-baseman George Scott is once again struggling to work off winter weight...
Unfortunately for anyone but Red Sox devotees, the highly parochial Boston press does not provide the opportunity. They have given Dick Stuart, the Sox' awkward new first-baseman, more coverage than the rest of the American League. news of the other league, like reports coming from the un-free world, is shrouded in mystery...
Baltimore falls in the same questionable category with Cleveland. The Orioles have a pretty fair assortment of pitchers and the league's best catcher in Gus Triandos, but then things tail off rapidly, though first-baseman Bob Boyd is definitely a strong infielder. At this point one's eye inevitably falls on the likes of Willie Miranda of the porous bat, Brooks Robinson of the unrealized potential and Bobby Avila of the better days: the Orioles will not make it out of the second division...
...furnished with his prize-winning 1944 chair. And, his black leather chair near by frankly owes a great deal to the Victorian functionalist, William Morris. The leather cushions have built-in wrinkles, Eames concedes, "but that is a clue that spells comfort to come, like a well-used first-baseman's mitt...
...lineup, young (21) William Stanley Mazeroski is Pittsburgh's second baseman; in action, he seems determined to prove himself a one-man ball club. He ranges after flies as widely as any outfielder, charges bunts with such breakneck energy that sore-backed First-Baseman Ted Kluszewski is left lumbering in his wake. He handles the double-play with the swift hands of a professional pickpocket. "He doesn't catch that ball," says one of his fans. "He just guides it toward first base...