Word: shortstop
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...Senior shortstop Ed Durso had a good year defensively last season and an excellent year at the bar the year before. If the All-GBL selection can put both together, he could be one of the Crimson's brightest stars this spring...
...needs the glove of an all-star shortstop, the agility of a gold-medal gymnast, the reflexes of a championship racing-car driver, the eye of a .400 hitter and the mind of a geometrician. Even then he is nothing if he has not conquered fear, for he lives in a vortex of violence in the world's fastest team sport. He is the hockey goalie, the masked man, the magnet for action...
Berg grew up in that city, the son of an immigrant Russian Jewish pharmacist. At Princeton, he excelled in romance languages and stopping balls as the varsity shortstop. Berg lacked confidence that he could make it in the majors, but he reasoned that baseball was the most enjoyable way to earn enough money to study phonetics at the Sorbonne. The Brooklyn Dodgers, who probably thought Berg had said something about liking sour buns, offered him a $5,000 contract...
...lefthander Bill Lee and Yankee ace Doc Medich dueled brilliantly for nine and a half innings. But in the Yankee half of the tenth, Alomar led off with a walk. Substitute shortstop Fred Stanley followed with a perfect sacrifice bunt that got Alomar to second...
Although the Red Sox threatened to peck away at the Birds' lead to win, Cuellar was content with men on base and received superb defensive support with two stellar plays by shortstop Mark Belanger. Belanger saved one run with a stunning aerial stab of a Terry Hughes smash, to end the sixth inning and leave Burleson on second base...