Word: shortstopping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baseball's great deficiencies: they had fresh pitching talent that could survive nine innings. They had big (6 ft. 3½ in.) Gene Bearden, who won 20 and lost 7 last year, plus assorted ablebodied veterans. In Manager Lou Boudreau they also had the smartest, hardest-hitting shortstop in baseball...
John Caulfield had scored Harvard's only run in the first on a two-base error by shortstop John Yurewicz, an infield out, and another infield error. After that, the Crimson never threatened. Its two hits(by Pete Petrille and Mort Dunn) came in the second and third but Petrille was forced at second and Dunn was caught stealing...
Again, in the sixth, there were distinct evidences of loving care in the Teaching of Infield Play. After BU's Art Chartier had tripled firmly into darkest left-center, he committed the tactical error of attempting to score on a grounder to shortstop. Realizing the folly of this, he started back to third base when it became certain that Mort Dunn's throw would reach home before he did. Where the loving care enters is regarding the skill with which Crosby, Godin, and Mannino put Chartier in the hot box and then put him out. It's that sort...
...Shortstop Henry Young paced the Yardling offense with two hits in four trips, but the defensive work of Tim Wise, Win Carduff, Young, and Bill Hickey in the infield, Ben Akillian, Bob Thompson, and Ralph Robinson in the outfield, and Bill Goodman behind the plate, kept the freshmen even with Tech until darkness forced cessation of play...
Died. Chalmers (Bill) Cissell, 45, who lasted a decade as a big-league shortstop after being bought in 1927 by the Chicago White Sox for $123,000, one of the highest prices ever paid for a minor-league ballplayer; of a heart ailment; in Chicago...