Word: outfielded
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...Another fella deserves credit and where would I be without him? Phew! He can give me a job in the outfield and he can catch, too [Elston Howard, first Negro ever to play with the Yankees]. Good kid, too, if they leave him alone and stop fighting the Civil War all over and they almost ruined him. He's good...
...That fella on first, he gives me the big pinch-hit with 16 home runs in his first 32 hits [of his three first basemen. Casey is now talking about Ed Robinson]. So they say he won't be an outfielder [now, Joe Collins], but I'm not afraid to stick him in the outfield in the '53 series, and phew! What do they say in Brooklyn about me using a first baseman in the outfield? But he does me a good...
...years ago. Hank had handled the tools of ignorance briefly in those days as a busher. Besides, the ex-marine was an old pro, the kind of guy who would stop a hard one with his teeth if he had to. Bauer it was. Joe Collins moved to the outfield; Robinson went to first...
...straight ahead of him, the pitcher looms preternaturally large on his mound of earth. As he crouches close to the ground, his field of vision gives him his own special view of the vast ballpark. The white foul lines stretch to the distant fences; the outfielders seem to be men without legs. Between him and the flycatchers, from the far outfield grass to the brown base paths, the rest of the team twitches nervously in place. In a sense, the game belongs to him. He is the catcher...
When he was not catching, Campy played the outfield or pitched; the trick was to stay in the line-up at any cost. "Since there was no trainer to tell us when we got hurt, a man kept playing as long as he could stand up," Campy remembers. "You had to. You got paid if you played. There were no averages kept in those days. You couldn't go up to the boss and say 'Look here, I'm hitting .350, so how about a raise?' All you could do was make sure you played every...