Word: shortstopping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American League, most notable development of the winter was the deal arranged by the Boston Red Sox, who paid a record price of $225,000 to the Washington Senators for Shortstop and Manager Joe Cronin. These doings, on top of revived interest caused by the exciting end of the 1934 season and the appearance of a new star to take Babe Ruth's place, will either make 1935 a banner year or indicate that baseball as a U. S. industry is incorrigibly profitless...
...veteran slabster, will start the game with Bill Lincoln available for relief work. Braggiotti pitched the 3-3 tie with Navy, while Lincoln's twirling accounted for two of the southern victories. The infield will consist of Tom Bilodeau at first base, Bill Hayes at second, Craig Woodruff at shortstop, and John Adzigian in the hot corner. Ben Prouty is to start at right field, Braman Gibbs at center, and Frank Owen in right field. Captain Dick Maguire will take his customary place behind...
...opening game with Villanova, the tentative line-up includes Gibbs at first base, Bilodean of last year's Freshman team of the keystone sack, Adzigian at third. Woodruff at shortstop, Maguire behind the plate, and either Lincoln or Braggietti hurling them over...
...other big-league owners had figured out their budgets for the winter trading season, Tom Yawkey opened his purse again and pushed his investment in the Red Sox across the $2,000,000 line. For a sum estimated at $150,000, he bought from the Washington Senators their star shortstop and manager, Joe Cronin. It was, according to Owner Clark Griffith, an historic high price to pay for a professional baseballer...
...Shortstop: Jackson (Giants) Cronin (Senators...