Word: infielder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a faithful few turned out for the first baseball practice of the year at Briggs Cage yesterday afternoon. But lack of numbers didn't hamper the spirit, as a second-string infield pulled off the year's first triple play...
...straightaways of the Speedway's half-mile track before 10,000 racing fans, Flock was in second place behind Thomas when disaster struck. On the 163rd lap of the 100-mile race, Flock's rear axle broke. The right rear wheel went spinning into the infield, and the Hudson rolled over. Brother Fonty, one of the daredevil Flock family,* driving in third place, slammed to a stop and watched. Tim stepped out of the wreck, shaken but unhurt...
...Cleveland led the league in runs and in home runs, owned the three top run scorers (Roberto Avila, Al Rosen, Larry Doby), the two top home-run hitters (Doby, 32, Luke Easter, 31) and the league leader in runs-batted-in (Rosen, 105). But the porous Cleveland infield (Easter, Avila, Rosen, Boone) let the pennant slip through buttery fielding fingers, while the Yankees kept on winning the big games...
...Best Infield...
...League's best infield--Joe Collins, Billy Martin (or Gerry Coleman), Phil Rizzauto and Gil McDougald, may not be completely intact, but the major leagues' most consistent farmy system will find lots of eager young men to replace them...