Word: infielder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Take a pretty good college baseball team and subtract the guts of the League's best infield, the League's leading hitter, a player now working in the N.Y. Giants farm system, and a starting pitcher. The result is some thing resembling the 1963 Harvard squad...
Minnesota manager Sam Mele did no trading during the winter recess, and with good reason: he has a well-balanced young ball team that could bring home a pennant any year now. His infield, a question mark last year because of its youth, has had a year to work together and they move with smooth precision...
...infield is not the best in the business, but there are lots worse. If Chuck Schilling can recover from his disastrous sophomore slump (.230), the Boston infield could become a major asset...
...possible challenger--if everything goes all right--could be Detroit. The Tigers possess considerable teeth with Rocky Colivito (37 homers), Norm Cash (39 homers), and Al Kaline: (.304). Detroit's infield, however, is rather leaky defensively, and their big sluggers seem to alternate good years...
Chicago's Al Lopez claims (for the ninth time in ten years) that he has a contender, and perhaps he does. Joe Cunningham (.295), Floyd Robinson (.312), and Al Smith (292) give him a significant outfield, but he has lots of troubles elsewhere--like the entire infield. Ray Herbert might win 20 games for the Chisox; if he doesn't forget it. There isn't much else on the staff...