Word: infielder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wild hurling and an erratic infield combined to give Holy Cross a 3 to 1 win over the Crimson at Soldiers Field Saturday. In fact, without the bases on balls, hit batters, and muffed grounders, neither team would have scored a run. It was a pitchers' battle for all nine innings, even though both starters were relieved. Neither team could manage more than four hits...
...major league stars, Stuffy McInnis and Jack Barry, both of whom played in the famous Philadelphia Athletic $100,000 infield and both of whom have since become college baseball coaches, will match managerial wits when Harvard and Holy Cross clash this afternoon...
...points in the game, the Crimson looked as if it might be able to score on Ken Moffat, side-arm righthander who trimmed them here last week, 4 to 3. Right fielder Ralph Robinson led off the fourth inning with a single, and Russ Johnson followed with a sharp infield hit. But the next three men went down in order...
...first of the ninth the Crimson had a man in its first scoring position of the day, when Bennie Akillian walked, then went all the way around to third when the Bruin infield kicked around pick Clasby's grounder. Pitcher Rufe Webb, pinch-hitting for Ray Maesaka, pupped up to the catcher for the third out and the end of the Crimson's chances...
...second game provided an altogether different story. Emerson, the Elis' big right-handed starter, held the visitors virtually helpless, limiting them to two blows, a fly ball double by Robinson and an infield single by Walsh. He threw a total of 70 pitches, an average of less than three per batter, and allowed only four bases to be hit beyond the infield...