Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moving out from the plate, we reach the mound, a real trouble spot for Stuffy this year. With his two top men--Barry Turner and Ira Godin--gone, the wily mentor really had to start from the beginning. There are seven possible pitchers on the roster today, but that number will be pared down shortly...
...Godin, ace pitcher of last year's baseball squad is in Deland, Florida, training with the Louisville team of the Red Sox farm system. He is aiming to join two select, but undistinguished groups--the Red Sox mound staff, and the company of Harvard graduates who have made the big time...
...although Devens was soon accepted as a comrade by his professional colleagues, he was not a success on the mound. He retired after the next season (1934), and took a position with the State Street Trust Company...
...some are none too sure of their obs) and eager new candidates. Stuffy lovers over it all. "Keep the ball away from the pitcher," he calls to a batter. "Hit it to the left or right." The nervous man at the plate drills a fast one straight at the mound and the pitcher dives for the ground. The coach wipes his forehead and mutters, "Dirty practice balls are very hard to see." With Ira Godin, last year's mound star, graduated, Stuffy can't afford to lose any pitchers...
Mcinnis may not have any Murderers' Mound to throw against Eastern League batters, but in the Infield and outfield he has a wealth of material to choose from. And whether or not he admits it, he has already started choosing. By the time April 14 comes around, and the opening with Navy at Annapolis, the coach will be thinking of last year's Navy game, when Godin whipped the Middles in 17 innings...