Word: shortstopping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catching hold of a three-two pitch in the last of the ninth, Arnie Closky, Crimson shortstop, bauged a double between Jumbo right and center fielders to chase home Jack Wallace from second with the winning run, breaking up a 1 to 1 tie Saturday at Soldiers Field...
Wright, who pitched for the State of Rhode Island at the national softball tourney at Chicago in 1940 (won by Rochester Kodak), never allowed more than two runs in any of the six games. Shortstop Al Pytko, of the same team, proved to be perhaps the best leadoff man of the tourney, and Ash Carter took care of the league's most difficult catching assignment in handling Wright...
...thirteenth, Coach Stahl and the Coast Guardsmen decided to end the struggle after the next inning. Leading off in the last of the fourteenth, shortstop Closky reached first when his grounder was thrown wide of first base. Bill Ayres, who had taken over Jim Fava's first base post in the twelfth, also rolled to the infield but reached first on a fielder's choice. As backstop Mel Lackey went down on strikes for the second out, Ayres pilfered second, placing himself in scoring position...
...Coopers. The Cardinals had more than their rookie outfielder to worry about. Their famed Cooper brothers-Pitcher Mort and Catcher Walker-went on a rampage when they found that Shortstop Marty Marion had been promised a raise over the club's $12,000 ceiling salary, threatened to quit unless their ante was upped from $12,000 to $15,000. The row was no morale booster for the Cards, whose team spirit had been a major factor in their three straight pennants...
...second inning, the visitors, already behind 3 to 0, pushed across their first run. Left fielder Mel Allen opened the inning by singling to short, and advanced to second on the shortstop's boot...