Word: infielder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...improved fielding and base running shown in the Holy Cross game will mark the Cantabs as slight favorites. Against the Crusaders the "rookie" infield played faultlessly, while Huntington and While again hit safely...
White reached third on a single, a sacrifice, and an infield out, and the fleet infielder took advantage of Dick Shellenbach's long wind-up to get a substantial lead. Shellenbach, who relieved starter Jim O'Neill after White's single, attempted to nick the batter when he saw White tearing down the base-line and the Crusaders argued that Charlie Walsh had been hit. Had Shellenbach succeeded, the ball would have been dead and White forced back to third...
...fielding and the pitching of this team are not far behind its phenomenal batting. "The infield gives its opponents four outs," Lynch said, and improves on the famous Tinker to Evers to Chance infield with their Lynch to Hall to Burke to Burnett combination...
...looked around and happened to notice Hal Moffie, a well-known outfielder working out around second. Captain John Caulfield, a familiar sight to baseball fans in right field, was playing in a little close. In fact he was holding down first as the ball was pegged around the infield. Cliff Crosby, minus the pads, and mask was using a five fingered glove in a pepper game. "He's been playing third," someone told...
Stuffy McInnis, first baseman of Connie Mack's immortal $100,000 infield, is starting his sophomore year at Harvard. Memories of warm climates encountered during the spring southern jaunt last year, will remain memories. He'll travel of course, ten out of the last eleven games are away, but they're not far enough away to allow swimming after the games. By playing the Boston teams he'll meet some of the toughest opposition in the northeast. All in all there's a 19 game schedule and its just a little more than three weeks away...