Word: infielding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Juggling Infield...
...first big-league job, with Boston, 22 years ago when the regular shortstop broke a leg. If he had played 140 games this season, Maranville would have passed the record of Pittsburgh's Honus Wagner who played in 2,785. Famed for his basket-catches of infield flies, his picayune size, his antics on the field and off, Maranville hoped also to play until he had grandchildren old enough to watch him. When he was traded out of the big leagues in 1927, he stopped drinking, promptly came up again in 1928. He declined the job of managing...
...Dean and a team of fast opportunistic young players. Philadelphia's weak point last year was pitching; Manager Jimmy Wilson was still trying to make up his mind last week which pitchers to keep from a staff of 13. The accident to Maranville left Boston with a weak infield. Brooklyn and Cincinnati looked much as they did at the start of the season a year ago. Brooklyn had a new manager, Casey Stengel, who watched practice at Orlando in a cream and crimson striped shirt. Cincinnati had a new owner, Radio Manufacturer Powel Crosley Jr. (TIME...
...increase it last autumn he drank a quart of cream every day. Robert Abiel Rolfe comes from Penacook, N. H., graduated from Dartmouth in 1931, batted .326 for Newark last year, when he was voted most valuable player in the International League. Redhaired, ruddy-faced, his stance in the infield is characterized by a noticeable stoop, feet pointed directly at the home plate. Last week, in an exhibition game at St. Petersburg, Rolfe's single, with two out in the ninth inning, sent Heffner home with the run that beat Newark...
...first-string infield has Louis B. Carr '37 at first, Frank J. Owen '37 at second, Thomas H. Bilodeau, Jr. '37 at short stop, and Alan Darling '37 at third. All of these men stand an excellent chance of retaining their present berths for the remainder of the season...