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While Ortiz spent the majority of the year playing DH, the least valuable position in baseball, Rodriguez plays the hardest position in baseball better than any other American Leaguer. To put up monster numbers and be the best shortstop makes A-Rod the clear...
...team. Organizers prefer teams because they draw more fans--crucial for an event trying to sell itself as a spectator sport. Purses are relatively modest, at least by pro-baseball standards. A World Cyber Games winner might get $20,000--less than what the Texas Rangers pay shortstop Alex Rodriguez for two innings...
Klimkiewicz never complained about having to learn a new position after playing shortstop alongside Farkes at Cambridge’s BB&N, nor did he whine about having to do so while recovering from the ACL tear that had sidelined him the previous year. He simply battled through an early-season slump and recovered well enough to keep the Crimson in the league race, including knocking in all four Harvard runs in a backs-to-the-wall game two of the Ivy League championship series win that extended the season...
...League full of young pitching standouts, the Crimson could not match its offensive performance of a year ago, but two Rachels still had stellar seasons. Freshman third baseman Rachel Murray, who finished third on the team with a .297 batting average, earned second-team All-Ivy honors. Junior shortstop Rachel Goldberg, who led the team in home runs, earned the team’s most outstanding defensive player award and was an All-Ivy honorable mention selection...
...settles down in Section 42 of Fenway’s right field bleachers. Soon after the FM entourage arrives, Boston right fielder Trot Nixon makes a backpedaling, leaping catch at the wall to rob the Indians of extra bases. After the rest of the Indians are retired, Sox superstar shortstop Nomar Garciaparra leads off the bottom of the inning with a homer to left-center. “Wow,” Topjian notes. “The first Sox player I see bat hits a home...