Word: shortstopping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Petersburg, Fla. last week, the score was 3-to-2 in favor of the New York Yankees, playing an exhibition game against the Boston Braves. In the eighth inning, Boston's famed Shortstop Rabbit Maranville, who in the fifth inning had hit his first homerun in two years, was on third base, with two out. New York's Catcher Kies threw to second, to catch a base-stealer. Maranville started for home. Instead of sliding face first, as usual, Maranville tried to run across the plate. As he reached in to touch it, his shin cracked against Rookie...
Gnomelike Walter James Vincent Maranville is one of the nine big-leaguers over 40.* He got his first big-league job, with Boston, 22 years ago when the regular shortstop broke a leg. If he had played 140 games this season, Maranville would have passed the record of Pittsburgh's Honus Wagner who played in 2,785. Famed for his basket-catches of infield flies, his picayune size, his antics on the field and off, Maranville hoped also to play until he had grandchildren old enough to watch him. When he was traded out of the big leagues...
...Senator had yet hit one of Hubbell's pitches squarely by the seventh inning when a few confident Giant fans started home. By so doing they spared themselves the risk of apoplexy in the eighth and ninth. Hubbell walked two men. Myer knocked a hot grounder to Shortstop "Blondy" Ryan. Ryan juggled it and then, without waiting to get hold of the ball, batted it three yards with the flat of his hand to Critz at second base, nailing the runner from first. Next up was old "Goose" Goslin. He whacked the ball against the right-field fence...
...back. Bill," he begged. "I know this guy Bolton from the minors. He hits hard but he's the slowest man in the league. Play him for a double play!" Astonished, Terry obeyed, ordered his infielders back. True to Dressen's word. Bolton burned a drive to shortstop, lumbered toward first. Ryan was well prepared. He scooped it up, flipped it to Critz at second, who shot it to Terry in time for a clean double play. Thus ended Carl Hubbell's 20th inning of pitching without an earned run against him. New York 2. Washington...
Three other lettermen who will return in the spring, but who are absent from fall practice due to participation in fall sports are Charles J. Nevin '34, veteran catcher, Craig D. Woodruff Jr. '34, who plays shortstop, and John Ware '34 takes care of center field...