Word: infielder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McGraw arrived in Baltimore to play the infield for the old Orioles. He was small (5 ft. 6½ in.), young (18), and a country boy from upstate New York. At that time, the basis of baseball strategy was simply to hit the ball as far as possible. Young McGraw was brash enough and bright enough to see that the game should be infinitely more complex than that, and soon he was all but running the team. By 1894, Oriole baseball flourished as "a. combination of hostility, imagination, speed and piracy...
...facade of sickly Suffolk green was replaced with vibrant yellow along with occasional splashes of cool blue and hot red. He personally took a sledgehammer to the dingy rest rooms, did away with pay toilets, ripped the barbed wire off the fences, ordered 24 apple trees planted in the infield and reduced the admission fee to $1.50 for both the clubhouse and the grandstand. "Notice the new green carpet in the clubhouse," he readily tells passersby. "Color is so important...
...Yardling infield has a composite batting average of .355. Second baseman Vince McGugan is the leading hitter with a .429 average and two home runs against M.I.T...
After two opening singles right-hander Kalinoski yielded only one hit to Northeastern over the next eight innings. In his second complete game in as many starts, the senior hurler struck out ten Huskie hitters and allowed just three balls out of the infield...
Combining for the Brandeis victory, sophomore pitcher J. C. Nickens and Tom Kidwell yielded only four hits and allowed just five balls to leave the infield. Nickens struck out seven batters, four in a row at one point, in his six inning performance...