Word: shortstop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rest of the Alumni team is composed of men who made their mark deep in Harvard athletics. J. P. Chase '28, who will play shortstop, was a hockey and baseball veteran for three years and captained the hockey team in his senior year; E. C. Lincoln '22 was a three-year regular on the nine; F. B. Cutts '28 was the man who as relief pitcher in his junior and senior years chalked up three victories over Yale; Wilmot Whitney '16 and L. F. Young '23 were leading hurlers of their day; and finally Richard Harte '17 was a three...
McGrath has garnered more safeties than any of his teammates. He is also the leading run-scorer, and stands well up among those who have driven in the most runs. The scintillating Sophomore shortstop vies with Gilligan, for honors in pilfering sacks off opposing catchers...
...tightly played game, won in the ninth inning by a drive for three bases by A. S. Lupien '32 which was stretched into a home run by an error on the part of the schoolboy shortstop, the Freshman baseball team defeated Exeter by a 2 to 1 score Saturday on Soldiers Field...
Coach Mitchell will probably start practically the same team which has acquitted itself so well in all the contests to date J. A. Prior '29 the team's leading batter so far, at first base, F. E. Nugent '29 at second, E. H. McGrath '31 at shortstop, and Captain E. G. Donaghy '29 at third will in all probability comprise the Harvard infield, while B. H. Bassett '31, B. H. Ticknor '31 and either T. W. Gilligan '31 or E. R. Todd '29 will tend the further reaches of the outfield. Whether R. R. Ketchum '29 or W. H. MacHale...
...fill in at shortstop, Huggins bought the services of one Lynford Lary from the Oakland, Calif., club for a reported price of $75,000. Florida sunshine, however, revealed serious faults in Lary's fielding. What to do? A young man on the substitute bench, Leo Durocher, had the answer. Durocher is 23. He did not cost $75,000, nor one-tenth that much. He has been on the Yankee "Yannigan" string for several years. Huggins liked him because he was alive. When the oldtimers "rode"' Durocher he talked back. He even wrote them fresh letters...