Word: shortstopping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...infield is well balanced, centering around shortstop-Captain Freddy Keyen and second-sacker Bart Harvey, who shows great promise though the polish is still lacking. Veterana Gil Whittemore at third and Bill Tully at first round out the infield...
...Barnum of Baseball. During the past ten years, ever since he was put in charge of the Senators' Chattanooga farm club, strange tales have floated up from the Tennessee hills. On opening day, Engel had his players parade into the ball park on elephants. He traded a shortstop for a turkey, roasted it and served it to local sportswriters who had been "giving him the bird." He raffled off houses and automobiles, had canaries singing in the grand stands. When the New York Yankees went to Chattanooga to play a pre-season exhibition game with his Lookouts, Engel...
...season got under way, Del Baker's Tigers began to click-partly because of fiery Shortstop Dick Bartell, but mostly because of the pitching staff. Schoolboy Rowe, Detroit's No. 1 pitcher in 1934-35, recovered his old form after a year in the minors nursing a lame...
...Harvard infield now has Ed Buckley at first, Sam Merrill at second Fred Keyes at shortstop, and Gil Whittemore at third. Football Captain Torbert Macdonald and Les Pitchford play the outfield with either Bill Parsons or Leon Hartstone...
...Phelan will start on the mound for the Samberskimen and Bob Axtell will receive. Art Scully, shortstop, Jack (Poech) Haley, centerfielder, and Bart Harvey, second-sacker, are the team's leading batters...