Word: shortstopped
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...half of the inning, Engineer Pete Steinhagen laced a triple and Joe Kracunas stood in the way of a Brown fastball to raise the home team's hopes. But Brown neatly ended the frame as he forced clean-up hitter Dan Sundberg to ground to freshman shortstop Burke St. John to start a 6-4-3 double play around Harvard's Kiddie Korps infield...
Still with two outs, Billy Blood was intentionally passed to stuff the sacks again, and shortstop Burke St. John singled and went to third thanks to the frozen hands of B.C. center fielder Steve Johnson. St. John's hit and Johnson's boo-boo pushed across the final three tallies of the six-run seventh and found the Crimson in control...
Last season's regular shortstop, Paul Halas, has moved over to second base. Burke St. John, quarterback for this 'season's frosh football team, will now be calling the signals at short, while Halas joins freshmen Mike Stenhouse. Bobby Kelley and Charlie Santos-Buch in a fourman dogfight for the keystone stop...
...apparent all-freshman infield of Bingham, Stenhouse, and St. John is completed with first-year man Rick Pierce at third base. Pierce, who graduated from the same high school in Pittsfield Mass, as Baltimore Oriole shortstop Mark Belanger, wields a glove so dexterous that his coach rated him a step below the Oriole great. Last year starter Corby Saunders and muscle man Dave Knoll are fighting it out for the backup spot...
Ernie Banks has not been heard from much since he retired as an active player with the Chicago Cubs in 1971. The shortstop-first baseman, who hit 512 home runs in his 19 seasons with the team, has worked as a coach at Wrigley Field and as a roving instructor for the Cubs' farm system. But he never lost the sunny disposition that made him one of the best-loved players in baseball. "It's a beautiful day for a ball game," he would often say. "Let's play two." If a doubleheader was scheduled, he would...