Word: infielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Mitchell again sent his men through a long batting session, followed by infield and outfield practice. As soon as the condition of the squad permits, Coach Mitchell plans a series of games, starting probably on Friday. The squad will be reduced by successive cuts to a size permitting more thorough instruction in the fundamentals of the game...
...tallies and held the Crimson scoreless for two innings. Meanwhile, in the fourth, Springfield collected its single score of the game. Crawley, who was to supplant Gates in the box before the game was over, drove a two-base hit to left field. Todd's throw to the infield was just wild enough not to go next to any infielder, and no effort was made to retrieve it, Crawley taking third. It was Todd's first miscue of the season, and unfortunately it was one of the kind made imperative by the necessity of scoring it to the only...
Against the Springfield College nine no change in the infield is expected. Against Holy Cross, Keene filled the shortstop position handling eight chances with a single error and getting two hits out of four trips to the plate. If he can continue his hitting, and his fielding is almost sure to improve with a little more regular action, the infield problem caused by Howard's injury will probably have found its happiest solution...
...position seems to be a certainty now. Howard has returned to Cambridge, and is recuperating rapidly, but the chances of his seeing baseball action again this spring are very slim. With Tobin fairly securely established at the initial sack, the hot corner is the only place left in the infield to be definitely filled, and Slayton, Ullman and Dacey are definitely in the running...
...gain the verdict. Hammersley beat out a slow roller to Pollard, a lucky break for the Blue which put Barbee in a hole. Vaughan followed with a three base drive to right center, Hammersley scoring, and Caldwell immediately sent Vaughan home with a single over the closed-in infield. Barbee retired the next three men with little trouble, but Harvard went out in one-two-three order in the last half of the inning...