Word: shortstop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wilderness of the American League's second division in 1951 and has kept them in third place ever since, was named general manager and field manager of the moulting Orioles (née the St. Louis Browns). Richards' successor in, Chicago: mild Marty ("Mr. Shortstop'') Marion, who flopped with the Browns...
...Texas A. & M. on an athletic scholarship (he got a Master's in administrative education), and learned a lot more baseball. "I even learned how to break a batting slump," Wally remembers now. "You just widen your stance, stand flatfooted and try to hit the ball over the shortstop's head. It always works...
...played end on the Attleboro High School football team, and his snappy work at shortstop brought an offer of a scholarship to Dartmouth. Joe turned it down, decided instead to help out the family by reporting for the Attleboro Sun and playing semi-pro baseball for the town and local industrial teams...
...with limber-legged speed to pull down balls tagged with the promise of extra bases. He throws from center with a zip and an aim that have brought chagrin to the National League's brashest baserunners. "He's thrown men out at first like he was a shortstop," says the Giants' captain and shortstop, Alvin Dark. "He nails 'em at home like he was throwing from second...
Desperate Scenery contains rib-tickling accounts of Paul pounding the piano for silent movies, playing shortstop against "The Boston Bloomer Girls," and tousling with an unfriendly Chinese ("I learned for the first time how strong and difficult a small Chinese can be, when apprehensive"). The book climbs to its ribald and humorous peak with a description of the night the brothel burned down in Ashton, Idaho, and "the quick thinkers routed out those who chanced to be relaxing in the bedrooms ..." Happily, sporting life a la Paul never gets quite so outrageous that it cannot be thoroughly enjoyed by hammock...