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Baseball practice had run to more than three hours yesterday afternoon, when Norman Shepard finally called a halt and headed for a seat against the far wall of Briggs Cage. As his players trouped slowly outside, Shepard began talking about the team he is trying to put together for the coming spring...
...words came slowly at first, then faster; and they ran together in a manner that was more than faintly suggestive of that new language created within the past decade by Casey Stengel. Shepard's discourse had much of the charm of Stengelese, and fortunately it was far less confusing. It seemed, somehow, as if all baseball coaches ought to talk that...
...Shepard spoke first about his catcher, John Davis--the team captain and a consistent, wholly dependable veteran. Here is one position, at least, where the varsity can expect to be "solid." But else-where, the picture is far more uncertain...
...first base, Shepard will play his most promising sophomore, Al Martin. Martin was captain of the freshman team last year and played at second. "We have no experienced first basemen at all this year," Shepard explained, "so we just had to switch Martin in there...
George Harrington will be the Crimson's second baseman, Shepard continued, and Mouse Kasargian will be back for another year at short. The third base spot will go either to Jerry Sullivan or to Chet Boulris, previously known to Cambridge only in the capacity of football-player...