Word: infielder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team opens its season Saturday, playing B. U. at 3 o'clock on Soldiers Field. At present it seems probable that the infield will be composed of three veterans and a newcomer. McGrath, who captained last year's Freshman nine, broke into the veteran combination of Prior. Nugent and Donaghey and will in all probability be seen at short. Whitney, at present listed with the outfielders, was seen at the hot corner quite frequently last year so there is a possibility of his being shifted to the infield...
...infield John Prior '29 and G. E. Donaghy '29, will in all probability play first and third base respectively, the position they occupied on last year's nine. At shortstop E. H. McGrath '31, captain of last season's Freshman team seems to have the call. The choice of a second baseman is Coach Mitchell's main problem. F. E. Nugent '30 has a slight edge over A. G. Whitney '29 in the race for this post...
Leading the fifth race at Belmont Park, Darkness, the favorite, cheered by all her backers, jumped over the railing and ran, riderless, three times around the infield...
...baseball fans, they tabulated the qualifications of the other clubs in the National League. They considered the Giants, able and expensive, but needing a pitcher, or three pitchers, since they had one-Benton. They considered Brooklyn, strong in the box, ragged afield, indifferent at bat; Chicago, lacking an infield of major league quality; Cincinnati, slipped from its lead because of injuries to valuable pitchers; Pittsburgh with no one in the box except "Spitballer" Grimes; Boston in seventh place, apparently hopeless, but having one great player, perhaps the greatest in the National League, famed in the field, sensational...
Nearly every crime in the baseball calendar was committed by the University players, who tossed the ball around wildly, misjudged flies and grounders in an exhibition of some of the worst playing seen on Soldiers Field in a long, long while. Five errors were chalked up against the infield...