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Senior Ric LaCivita, All-Greater Boston League last year, is pegged for the second base position this spring. Second team All-East Ed Durso will be at shortstop and senior Jim Stoeckel will cover the hot spot at third...
Brown is returning a veteran ball club led by junior short stop sensation Bill Almon, and outfielders Mike Cirullo and Ted Schoff. Almon was a first team All-East in 1973 beating out heavy hitting Crimson shortstop Durso for the spot. Cirullo and Schoof garnered positions on the second team All-EIBL behind their strong arms and impressive hitting...
Alvin made the big time for the Boston Braves at shortstop in 1948, taking the rookie of the year (then for both leagues) with a .322 average. Alvin was tight with second baseman Eddie Stanky and both of them went to the Giants, who took the pennant...
...worthy of a week at Lourdes. The Mets pitching, led by sore-shouldered Tom Seaver, held the Midwestern maulers to only eight runs in the five games. The asthenic Met batters, none of whom finished the regular season above .300, banged out a hearty 23 runs. Met Shortstop Bud Harrelson (155 Ibs.) miraculously escaped maiming when his scuffle with Cincinnati's Pete Rose (189 Ibs.) blossomed into the best-watched brouhaha since the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Rose later escaped injury at the hands of garbage-throwing Mets fans...
Oakland did not mount a serious threat until the ninth, with Matlack out of the game. But Ray Sadecki fanned shortstop Bert Campeneris with the bases loaded to preserve...