Word: shortstopping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advantage over the Elephants going into the seventh. Then the flood gates opened, and Eliot scored eight runs, including a wind-blown homer by Bob Morgan with the sacks saturated to win, 12 to 8. Balding Stu Bartle led the Mastadons in the field, playing a great game at shortstop...
Hitless for five innings, the Crimson picked up an unearned run in the first inning yesterday. Successive wild throws by the Northeastern shortstop and third-baseman on balls hit by the first two Varsity batters, Captain Jack Forte and John Caulfield, put the Samborski team in the lead...
Held to a 2-all tie throughout most of the game, the commuters broke the deadlock in the sixth inning to score the winning run. It was the strong defensive work at shortstop of Leo Flynn, only a few days out of his Varsity uniform, that led the Dudley team to victory...
...Brooklyn, where the fans are practiced in spotting phonies, color is something that cannot be faked, and a phony is someone who has color but not ability. Durocher has immense ability. In his day he was a crack fielding shortstop, and in eight years as manager he won Brooklyn its first pennant in 21 years (in 1941) and finished worse than third only once...
...same Varsity lineup which showed pitching strength, defensive ability, but somewhat effete hitting power in its first three contests, will take the field today. The infield, which has made only one error in three games, consists of Billy Fitz at first, Captain Jack Forte at second, Saul Mariaschin at shortstop, and John Coppinger at third...