Word: shortstopping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas H. Bilodeau '37, hard-hitting captain, shortstop, and all-around performer, leads a squad of prospective pitchers in the first baseball drill of the season this afternoon...
Convivial George Wesley Bellows, producer of some of the greatest prize fight pictures ever painted or lithographed in the U. S., was clean-shaven, bald, dressed like a truckdriver. In his three years at Ohio State he was shortstop on the baseball team. His capacity for beer was exceeded only by that of his good crony, lusty George links. Never did a public argument arise-the shooting of Edith Cavell, lynching in the South, the hypocrisy of the Billy Sunday school of revivalists - but vivid George Bellows felt impelled to get himself and his trenchant pencil into...
American League - Position - National League Gehrig (N. Y.) First Base Collins (St. L.) Gehringer (Det.) Second Base Herman (Chi.) Appling (Chi.) Shortstop Durocher (St.L.) Higgins (Phil.) Third Base Whitney (Phil.) Selkirk (N. Y.) Left Field Medwick (St.L.) Averill (Cleve.) Centre Field Galan (Chi.) DiMaggio(N.Y.) Right Field Demaree (Chi.) Ferrell (Boston) Catcher Hartnett (Chi.) Grove (Boston) Pitcher Davis...
...windy Funston playground, baseball kindergarten of big-league players like Oscar Vitt, Alvin Crowder, Umpire Babe Pinelli. One day the playground coach, Edward Hennessey, found him peering through a knothole at the San Francisco Seals, introduced him to their president, Charlie Graham. The Seals tried young Di Maggio at shortstop but he showed a tendency to throw ball to the outfield instead of first base. That was in 1932. In 1933 Joe Di Maggie's older brother Vincent, Seals outfielder, hurt his shoulder, was released. Joe was sent to play right field. He got a hit his first time...
...What a shortstop is to a pitcher, what a tail is to a kite, what a pin is to a pinwheel -Bill Hawkins is to Roy Howard. In 1906 when Roy Howard, a brash boy wonder two years off the Cincinnati Post, was made New York manager of the brand new Scripps' Publishers' Press Association at $50 a week (which he agreed to plough back for stock), his first appointee was Bill Hawkins, out of Springfield, Mo. by way of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Next year reorganization carried them into the United Press together. There for 13 years...