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...meets. The pole vault had started, but no one would bother watching until the bar passed 14 feet. Tobacco smoke gathered over the tight oval of the banked-board track while sweat-suited runners in their warmups jogged endlessly toward nowhere. Hurdlers twisted into weird calisthenics all over the infield. Here and there some exhibitionist dropped into a handstand, presumably to loosen his legs. Hordes of officials in boiled shirts hardly had room to get out of their...
That was the first of nine pennants. By 1914 Connie's A's had won three World Series; his "$100,000 infield" (Stuffy Mclnnis at first, Eddie Collins at second, Jack Barry at short and Home-Run Baker at third) was the pride of baseball. Then the A's were humiliated in a 4-0 series with the Boston Braves. Furious, Connie broke up his team, traded his high-priced players for cash. Philadelphia finished with one foot in the cellar for seven consecutive seasons...
...still looked awkward, his huge hands dug grounders out of the dirt with flawless ease. Those long arms could whip a ball across the infield too fast for the fastest runner. His lifetime fielding average was .946. At the plate Honus was a serious, spread-legged terror. For 17 consecutive seasons he hit better than .300 for a lifetime average of .329. In each of eight separate seasons he stole more than 40 bases. Before he quit as an active player in 1917, he had set a National League record of 3,430 hits, played in a record...
...Berra who catches every day and then Mantle." said Casey in pure Stengelese, as he stole a quick look backward over the season. "Skowron maybe, but Skowron played a month only and then he got hurt so he can't count. Rest of our infield is pretty good; hard to pick out the best...
...Dodgers. The Yanks are old pros who know the game too well to play it by the book. Casey's spectacular hunches will have them shooting for a big inning at the first break. Batters expected to sacrifice are likely to bluff a bunt to muss up the infield and then hit away; runners will gamble and go for extra bases. Infield and outfield alike are capable of making the game-saving catch, the impossible double play that rescues a faltering pitcher...