Word: shortstop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With B.U. ahead 2 to 0 in the fifth, Bill Cleary, breaking into the starting lineup for the first time this season, beat out a slow roller to third. Shortstop Jim Murray followed by driving home the first run with a line double to left-center...
...Yankees, meanwhile, have lost such irreplaceable stars as Reynolds and Woodling, and have seen the vital Phil Rizzuto age one more year at shortstop. True, they have picked up Bob Turley, but his mound contribution will probably not outweigh the advantage that Score gives the Indians...
Kessler's batterymate will be captain George MacDonald, the senior catcher who is one of the two returning starters from last year's team. The infield will consist of sophomores John Simourian at first base and Bob Hastings at second, with seniors Jim Murray at shortstop and Don Butters, the other returnee, at third...
...Shortstop is still a question mark. Harold "Bones" MacKinnney, last year's regular, is a good-field-no-hit player. Shepard's problem may be solved if Bill Cleary can regain his baseball from after the strenous hockey campaign. Cleary, a versatile outfielder last season, won the Wendell Bat, a trophy awarded for reaching base the most times...
Arts in the Cabinet. Viewers were treated to a better-than-average week of pure entertainment. Jack Benny, playing the part of the New York Giants' Shortstop Alvin Dark, co-starred with Giant Manager Leo Durocher in a parody of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. But the mutiny (Benny takes over the management of the Giants during the World Series) was a good deal funnier than the court-martial. ABC's Disneyland scored another ten-strike with a show devoted to Donald Duck from his inception until his final glowering flowering. CBS's Ed Murrow had another...