Word: outfielder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dodgers, whose loud Lippy Leo Durocher threatened to jettison his ancient outfield-Walker, Galan and Rosen -and gamble on three rambunctious rookies named Carl Furill, Gene Hermanski and Dick Whitman. With Mickey Owen in Mexico, he would depend on Rookie Ferrell Anderson behind the plate. The Dodgers were pointing mainly...
Bill Barron and Bill Holbrook both veterans of the '44 Freshman squad, stand out at present as the leading conlenders for catcher. The outfield, however, is the least settled of all sectors, with all three gardens open at this writing...
...wartimers were going down, the oldtimers were coming up; and a half dozen flashy rookies were having both ups & downs. One little slip by any one of the trio of Wakefield, Mullin and McCosky. and a well-muscled youngster named Hoot Evers* would make Detroit's outfield. (But Evers himself slipped this week, fractured his ankle, will be out for about eight weeks.) Dick Sisler, who hits the ball farther but not as often as his famous father, was trying to catch the Cardinals' Ray Sanders off first base. But the rookies expected to shine brightest were...
Steve's pride & joy, Pitcher Hal Newhouser, was blasted out in the third inning. The old bones in his outfield, average age 34, creaked and groaned. Greenberg & Co. looked silly against Hank Borowy's careful pitching. Score: Chicago 9, Detroit...
...count in Wednesday's game on Soldiers Field. Ted Watts, the Bruin pitcher, started hurling as if he were out to get a no-hitter, by setting the first nine men down in quick order without so much as one ball going to the outfield. The first hit given up by Watts was in the fifth inning and that to his opposing hurler, Jack Wallace...