Word: shortstopping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amherst nine will be playing its first game of the season against the College boys. Williams, who has not yet recovered from a hernia operation, is only to manage and coach the team, although he may be called upon to pinchhit. Pesky, sensational shortstop for the Red Sox last year, needs no formal introduction to baseball fans, and will be at his regular position...
Leverett shaded Lowell 21 to 5 led by the softball twirling of Hank Oedel yesterday. Lowell's defense fell apart when Irv Horowitz had to leave his shortstop hot spot...
...closed ranks for a show down soon after Price Boss Brown asked Lou Maxon to leave his big Detroit advertising agency to try to persuade the U.S. people that OPA was no whipcracking bully, but their friend (TIME, March 22). Stocky, sandy-haired Lou Maxon, 42, looks like a shortstop. His bright blue bow tie goes excellently with his bright red face...
Thus, Johnny Peacock, veteran receiver, will be behind the plate, along with the talented infield of Tony Lupien '39, a figure well known to College students, Bobby Doerr, often rated as the best second baseman in all of major league baseball, shortstop Eddie Lake, a Boston newcomer who had been enslaved in the Cardinal farm system most of his adult life, and Jim Tabor or Skeeter Newsome at third...
...Boudreau had to put a sportswriter at third base to muster two teams for a practice game. The Giants desperately and futilely combed the field for a proper first baseman. The Brooklyn Dodgers congratulated themselves on having acquired one player (Bobby Bragan) who could double as catcher and shortstop, an other (42-year-old John Cooney) who provided triple insurance as pitcher, outfielder and first baseman. Said Chicago White Sox Manager Jimmie Dykes: "Any team that can keep nine men on the field will be dangerous...