Word: shortstop
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...Wood's athletic versatility that is astounding. Unbelievable as it may seem. Wood was first line center of the hockey team, a consistent 300 hitter on the baseball squad as first baseman and shortstop, and a nationally-ranked tennis player...
...CHASE N. PETERSON '52, dean of Admissions, announces that the incoming class of 1975, "while not the brightest in Harvard history, demonstrate a terrific versatility of talents-from middle linebacker to shortstop." He thanks the Ohio State Republican Club for helping to find "1200 healthy males not currently enrolled in detention centers...
...squinted as if to flirt with a wink. Oratorically, however, he was off his game. A few weeks earlier he had read to an appreciative Harvard audience in Sanders Theatre from his new manuscript, Of A Fire On The Moon, scooping up questions as smoothly as a sure-handed shortstop, turning a few heckler's hot line drives into quick double-plays. This night, however, Mailer was less the athlete. He took a fighter's stance, to be sure, his left (or non-drinking) hand shooting out sharp jabs, a shoulder thrust forward and the curly graying head pulled...
...ready to say where it will all end. In a recent game against the Mets in San Francisco, the Giants' weak-hitting shortstop Hal Lanier poled a towering drive over the left centerfield wall that traveled at least 430 ft. It was Lanier's second homer in three years...
DeMichele sent the Crimson ahead with a high bouncer over second that scored Hurley and Bernhard. Pete Varney almost had Harvard's fifth consecutive hit, but shortstop Tom Pyrz made a great stop of a hard shot and ended the rally with a double play...