Word: lynford
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...fill in at shortstop, Huggins bought the services of one Lynford Lary from the Oakland, Calif., club for a reported price of $75,000. Florida sunshine, however, revealed serious faults in Lary's fielding. What to do? A young man on the substitute bench, Leo Durocher, had the answer. Durocher is 23. He did not cost $75,000, nor one-tenth that much. He has been on the Yankee "Yannigan" string for several years. Huggins liked him because he was alive. When the oldtimers "rode"' Durocher he talked back. He even wrote them fresh letters...