Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lincoln field out, but Phil Smith kept the rally alive by drawing a base on balls. Then Cobb drilled a hit to center, driving in Houston, and after Cobb swiped second, Hootstein's liner just over the shortstop's outstretched glove brought in Smith and Cobb...
...choice but pinch-hitter Dale Achenbach drilled a single to left field driving in Mikus. Indian pitcher Jim Shaw, who went all the way to win his fifth game of the year, helped his own cause with an opposite-field single past Crimson second baseman Dick Manchester's outstretched glove, sending two more tallies across the plate...
Baltimore Manager Hank Bauer may have the drop on the rest of the rookie crew with California's Mike ("Super Jew") Epstein, who stands 6 ft. 3½ in., weighs 238 Ibs., has a Star of David stenciled on his glove and can belt a baseball clear out of sight. The only trouble Hank has with Mike is carrying on a conversation. Mike, who studies social psychology in the offseason, likes to quote Socrates, Shakespeare and Ralph Waldo Emerson; even when he is talking baseball, he tosses off such words as indigenous and meaningfulness. Bauer finally had to take...
Dryden and Diercks controlled the scoreless second period. Two of the Harvard sophomore's instantaneous glove grabs had younger brother Bob Ferguson shaking his head in frustration...
...lead didn't last the period. At 18:37 Jimmy Quinn beat Fitzsimmons' glove to the upper rightcorner on a quick shot following a faceoff in Harvard...