Word: shortstop
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...peaked cap, always brought a gasp and then a cheer from the crowds, and it became the Rabbit's trademark. He performed legendary fielding feats with George Stallings' famed Boston Braves of 1914, who got up from eighth place on July 4 to win the pennant. Though Shortstop Maranville's lifetime average as a hitter was just .258, his chips-are-down .307 average that year helped the Braves sweep the World Series from the Athletics...
Rolfe, captain and shortstop of Dartmouth's baseball team in 1931, will succeed William H. McCarter, who held the post for 17 years...
...Mickey was playing shortstop for the Baxter Springs Whiz Kids in the Ban Johnson League. He was big enough to deserve at least a perfunctory glance from the baseball scouts. But nobody seemed interested in glancing Mickey's way. The Whiz Kids' manager, Barney Barnett, tried to get the St. Louis Cardinals interested. They did not answer Barnett's letter. As they will long remember, ivory hunters for the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox also passed up the chance to give Mickey Charles Mantle a farmclub tryout...
...whom the message came was Yankee Scout Tom Greenwade, onetime chief scout for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Greenwade watched Mickey Mantle play shortstop for the Whiz Kids one night in 1949. Mickey, who had graduated from high school that day, banged out a single, a double and a home...
...spring, Kennedy plays tennis and also shortstop for an administration nine...