Word: pivot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tackle on the right side and Irv Holler, 200-pound Revere lad will start as his running mate. Ed Haracz and Al Stewart, despite his fractured right hand, will be at the guards and it's a toss-up between Art Boyle and Ed Sandall for the pivot post. Boyle is the pepper-pot of the squad and will probably got the nod from Donelli...
...left-hander to throw from first to any other base, and easier to pick a man off the bag. Only a few great first basemen (among them the Cubs' Frank Chance and the Giant's George Kelly) were righthanded. But Robinson, with a tricky "scissors" pivot, manages to get rid of the ball as quickly as any southpaw first baseman in the league...
Died. John Joseph ("Johnny") Evers, 65, one of baseball's immortals, crafty second baseman of the championship Chicago Cubs of 40 years ago, pivot man in the famed Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance double-play combination;* of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Albany...
Walt Budke, pivot man of the champion Columbia Lions and holder of individual scoring honors, was the only unanimous selection in being named center of the first team. Rounding out this quintet with himself and Mariaschin are forwards Tony Lavelli of Yale and Chink Crossin of Penn, and Dartmouth's EdLeede at guard...
Starting at the forwards tonight will be Frank Lionette and Johnny Goldsmith, while Chuck Byrnteson and Dick Covey at guards will back up Rockwell at the pivot...