Word: shortstopping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This afternoon at 3 o'clock the team will meet the Tufts University nine, which has yet to win a game, at Soldiers Field. The Jumbos have lost of Northeastern, Bowdoin, Boston University, and Brown. Don Swegan, first string shortstop and the team's leading batter, was spiked in the first inning of the Quonset game but will start today's game. Joe Phelan, a former Marine who pitched for the Crimson in 1941 and 1942, is scheduled to do the hurling for the Stahlmen...
...Cleveland Indians had the league's best four-man pitching staff-Bob Feller, Steve Gromek, Red Embree, Allie Reynolds-and the league's best shortstop, Player-Manager Lou Boudreau...
...moment. Bill Fitz, a veteran of the '42 summer team, and the first man to play. Varsity ball under the wartime Freshman eligibility, looms are one of the best first base prospects in many years, while Don Swegan, of football and basketball fame, is holding forth at shortstop...
...captained the hockey and baseball teams (playing shortstop), was elected president of the student council, joined Hasty Pudding, Phoenix Club and Signet Society, among others. He developed a passion for foreign cars. He owned, in turn, a Mercedes, Voisin, Panhard-Levassor, Hispano-Suiza. After graduation, with only average grades, he put in a short tour of duty in the postwar army. Then his father's friend George Lee gave him a job in his investment banking house of Lee, Higginson...
...Airman Wilbur Wright died of typhoid, not pneumonia, as TIME had said. A brief dissertation on the subject of Cain's wife led to a longer one on Calvin Coolidge's mistaking (in a speech) a hit by Baseball's Walter Johnson for an error by Shortstop Jackson. ED. agreed that it would be silly to choose a Chief Executive for his knowledge of baseball...