Word: leadoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yankee Tom Sturdivant-Erskine the canny righthander who set a series strikeout record (14) against the Yankees in 1953, Sturdivant the lanky in-and-outer who was almost released by the Yankees last spring and who was blasted out of the second game. For six innings Sturdivant let the leadoff Dodger get to first base, and for six innings he shut the door on all but one run. The Yanks chipped away at Erskine for three runs in four innings, and Erskine departed. Home runs by Mantle and Bauer pushed the Yankee total to six. By the eighth inning Sturdivant...
...Negro from Gary, Ind. At the University of Illinois he wanted to be a football star in the worst way, but during a preseason drill in his junior year he broke a leg and never played football again. Later he won a fistful of Big Ten sprint championships, was leadoff man on the 400-meter relay team that set a Pan American record in Mexico in 1955. But when the Army shipped him to Los Angeles to try for the Olympic team, a bad break stopped him once more. He suffered leg cramps, was roundly beaten, and missed making...
Mike Robertson, the leadoff man for the varsity, gained a slight lead, to which Jim Cairns added. Number three man, sophomore French Anderson, held the lead against Princeton's Gabe Markinsohn, and anchor man Wharton had little trouble nailing down the victory. The winning time, 3:22.2, compares favorably with the varsity's winning time in the K. of C. Meet earlier this month...
...freshman mile-relay team was the victim of an unfortunate accident when Dave Rosenthal, protecting a lead which had been given him by leadoff man Bill Gillen, fell near the end of his lap. He lost his balance as a result of elbowing and pushing which took place on the turns. Although Lee Barnes and Dave Gordon made up part of the deficit, the Yardlings still lost by 15 yards...
...first Crusader run came in the first inning on a single by leadoff man Yasenki, a sacrifice, and a ball which rolled through Krinsky's legs for an error...