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...Davison High School, he did everything. And Harvard head coach Joe Walsh noticed.Besides captaining the hockey and football teams, Salsgiver—also a first-team “character,” according to Walsh—frequently pitched the first game of doubleheaders before suiting up at shortstop in the second, and often came out of the bullpen to close out the nightcap.He set 15 different school records, both as a hurler and at the plate, where he set marks for home runs and hit almost .530 for his career.The kid who lived on a farm...
...There were heart-stopping offensive heroics like Scott Podsednik's ninth-inning homer that decided Game One and Geoff Blum's 14th-inning game-winning shot in Game Three, in what was his first World Series at-bat. And in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game Four, shortstop Juan Uribe made a defensive marvel of a play by hurling himself into the left-field seats to grab a foul ball, thereby helping snuff out a Houston threat to a fragile Sox lead...
...strange part is Ozzie Guillen, the first manager to take a Chicago team to the World Series in nearly a half-century. The former Sox shortstop's big-league managerial experience is no broader than a pinstripe, and the Venezuelan native loathes Chicago's chilly weather. But his loose, informal style and perpetual-motion machine of a mouth have proved ideal for rallying a squad of talented but unfocused also-rans in search of an identity...
...against the Detroit Tigers on Aug. 19, 1951, and stepped up to lead off for the Browns in the second game. As expected, Gaedel walked on four pitches and retired from baseball. Next day the American League barred all midgets. Veeck talked about demanding a ruling on whether Yankee Shortstop Phil Rizzuto, at 5 ft. 6 in., was a short ballplayer or a tall midget...
...wrote about a high school shortstop named Khalil Greene, back before Peter Gammons knew his name and girls screamed it from the stands of Petco Park...