Word: infielder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leader or manager. The club's inexperience has shown in some glaring ways this spring. Bayh and Harris have knocked each other out chasing the same fly ball while Bayh and Jackson seem to think balls hit in between them possess cooties. On potential double play balls in the infield, Udall often throws to third and the one time he did get it to second, Shriver, in a fit of pique, threw it back. Finally, pitcher Wallace's predilection for putting members of the opposite team on base could hurt in post-season play...
...Maybe he could go back to football. Reagan plays too far to the right for even a right fielder and Ford copies him, thus the famous Republican Shift. Kissinger's hummer is no longer what it once was, and his refusal to let anyone else play the infield positions has hurt in the past...
...justice is swift. "The guy who gets it is always the last to know--I play with guys I know are never going to make it." Same thing with trades. Once Bristol was playing the Milwaukee Double A club. Everything was as usual. The other team took the infield and a big first baseman was out there throwing. Then a voice from a dugout called him in and he never came back out. They'd told him to pack his bags and get going. This could happen to Brayton at any moment: in early December, the player-to-be-named...
...reader realizes that not every professional ballpark is a Fenway Park, with neatly manicured grass and perfectly groomed infield dirt. Instead, the reader is confronted with Anderson County Stadium, where the infield is as hard as cement, and the outfield looks as though a bunch of kids had just finished having a rock fight...
...tomorrow morning we are going to go to Fenway early. Sam wants to get there in time to see everything: batting actice, infield practice, he even wants to see he Sox stand around before the game starts. In short, he wants to experience an entire season in the space of a single...