Word: shortstopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time Bill was 13, he was playing shortstop on pickup teams with the town's adults. He turned down college basketball scholarships to sign with the Pirates in the summer of 1954, played with a couple of farm clubs. By 1956 he was called up to the Pirates...
...White Sox in baseball's most embarrassing World Series. Behind him, some of the best players in the history of the game had played like bushers. Shoeless Joe Jackson, perhaps the greatest outfielder of them all, was unaccountably awkward under easy flies; Swede Risberg, the sure-handed shortstop, was fielding grounders with his feet; First Baseman Chick Gandil seemed asleep on the sack. But sawed-off Kerr had pitched his heart out against the Cincinnati Reds (who took the series, 5-3) and won. And not until a year later did Dickie or anyone else know for sure that...
Captain Bob Cleary was then hit by a pitch, to put men on first and second. Frank Saia, who accounted for three of the varsity's hits, followed with a single past shortstop to score Bergantino...
...addition to Cleary's injury, Mouse Kasarjian's physical condition is also marginal. The Crimson shortstop has been bothered by a wrenched foot and bruised ankle. Tom Bergantino, the regular third baseman, will move over to short, and Mo Balboni will fill in at third if Kasarjian is unable to play...
Shepard will juggle his own lineup a little for today's game. He will move Jim Shue into right-field in place of Mo Balboni, and may start George Harrington at shortstop...