Word: infielding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Infield: J. Dean, H. G. Gray, E. V. Dexter, G. B. Dexter, F. Brown, R. B. Porter, A. W. Blakemore, F. M. Weld, E. E. Rice, E. L. Hill, E. M. Gregory, C. S. Dow, R. Marcy, T. B. Gannett, J. C. Gray, T. P. Castle, H. F. Raynolds...
Outfield: M. G. Gonterman '95, A. Harding '94, F. F. Fox '97, W. L. Garrison '97, W. H. Sanders Sp. L. S. S., R. E. Paine '94, E. N. Lacey L. S., and also many of the infield candidates...
...outfield will have a number of candidates with Corbett heading them. Gonterman '96, Paine '94, McCarthy '96, and Manley, Gr., a graduate of several years standing, are likely to prove the best men for the other two places. Naturally many who see little hope for themselves in the infield will try for the outfield, increasing considerably the competition for the positions...
...good nine is not very good just at present, but there is certain to be more enthusiasm than for many years, as no single position is assured to any single candidate. Corbett is the most promising catcher, and A. Highlands has the best record of any pitcher. For the infield, Dickinson, Paine, Lowell, Hapgood, Whittemore, and Cook have all played in 'varsity games Unless some of these men go into the outfield, all these positions will have to be filled...
...improved. Once more sod has been removed and loam packed firmly in its place, until there is a broad path some fifteen or twenty feet wide running from first base all the way around to third base. There is hardly any possibility of bad bounds on balls to the infield...