Word: shortstopping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starting infield Berg has named Johnny Chase for third base, Johnny Goldsmith and Myles Huntington at shortstop and second, and Frank Lionette on first. Frank Glimp, Hal Moffie, and Dick Kobusch will cover the outfield in left, center and right respectively...
Saul Mariaschin, shortstop for the team, backed up the Lip. "As a native of Brooklyn," he asserted, "I naturally formed an attachment for the Dodgers, but Chandler's action certainly didn't help the game of baseball. Leo's a great manager anywhere...
...Exeter alumni and two former basketball players will make up the Yardling infield. The former Exonians are second-baseman Miles Huntington and third-baseman John Chase, and the sometime basketeers include Frank Lionette, another all-scholastic performer who will be at first base, and Johnny Goldsmith at shortstop...
...Louis farm system, not so dried up as some said, had grown a skinny, 20-year-old shortstop named Bernie Creger, for whom the Chicago Cubs would give a half-interest in Wrigley Field. Yet Creger had little chance to break into the Cardinals' crack lineup: to do that he would have to beat Marty ("Mr. Shortstop") Marion out of his job. At Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the up-&-coming Boston Braves were proud of bespectacled Earl Torgeson, who swings something like Ted Williams...
Although most of the positions on the squad have been held solidly for more than a week, Mariaschin is a latecomer, and was named as first-string shortstop only yesterday. The Varsity basketball captain has been practicing with the team for a week...