Word: sackers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, the club had no more color or draw than the present-day St. Louis Browns. After he got back from France, where he served as a chemical warfare major in the A.E.F., he took stock. There was only one really good ballplayer on the team, Second Sacker Rogers Hornsby. There was a debt of $175,000; no money for a training trip that winter, not even enough for new uniforms...
...greatest assets in this department has been Sophomore first-sacker Ned Fitzgibbons. Brought in from his Yardling spot in the field, Fitzgibbons has replaced Bill Tully, who graduated, with errorless finesse and has proved more than capable of filling the offensive clean-up slot...
...sons of old Erin have taken over the Yardling infield in grand style. Aside from being wicked wielders of the oak shillelagh, first basemen Jack Casey, keystone sacker Vince Leahy, shortstop Jim Gallagher, and hot corner guardian Johnny Kilpatrick have given the Freshman squad some of the fanciest exhibitions of fielding finesse that have graced the enclosed arena in many a campaign. The outfield has had little but batting practice...
...triple play in the fifth inning by the Hamblers saved the day for hurler George Cait. With the bases loaded, catcher George MacDonald caught a foul fly off the netting, and pegged to second sacker Guy Mell who tagged the Bellboy coming from first and touched the base to complete the triple killing...
Bill Tully, first-sacker, was credited with two of the eight Harvard hits, one of which, a three-bagger in the first frame, rang the bell for the first Crimson run. John Mussolini of Brown, however, took the batting prize for the day, with a record of four hits for four trips to the plate. Other successful Crimson bat-swingers were catcher Bob Regan, Art Scully, center-fielder Ed Buckley, third-sacker GII Whittemore, and right-fielder Bill Parsons, each of whom is credited with one hit for the afternoon...