Word: shortstopping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...infield, the Yankees have the slickest keystone combination in baseball: Shortstop Phil Rizzuto and Second Baseman Joe Gordon, who have chalked up 194 double plays this season, equaling the all-time major-league record. Rizzuto (with a batting average of .306) and Gordon (with a season's total of 24 home runs) are also dangerous hitters...
Brooklyn has won two previous pennants (1916 and 1920) since the World Series was inaugurated in 1903, but Wee Willie Keeler, Zack Wheat, Burleigh Grimes and Brooklyn's other immortals never succeeded in winning the Series. But Manager Leo Durocher, onetime Cardinal shortstop who, with the aid of nearly $1,000,000 worth of new material, led Brooklyn from third to first place in three years, brags "It'll take five or six games...
With Captain Freddie Keyes' injury still keeping him on the doubtful list, Art Seully may play shortstop. The rest of the lineup for Harvard will be Bob Regan, catcher; Bill Tully, first; Bart Harvey, second; Jay Gleason, third; Lou Clay left field; Ed Buckley, centerfield; and Ayres or Bill Parsons, right field...
Playing without their shortstop captain, Fred Keyes, the Varsity baseball forces were trampled on by the Brown bears yesterday afternoon to the tune of 9 to 4 at Providence. Harvard was outhit when Jake Schwede was nicked for 11 while his teammates connected eight times...
...Waldstein's ball game all the way until the final frame. He had whiffed the Huskies' ace shortstop, Al Pajonas, four times in his four appearances at the plate and had walked only two of the New England Conference champs...