Word: shortstops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hans Wagner, former Pittsburgh shortstop, was a .300 hitter for 17 seasons. The late " Pop " Anson of Chicago batted above .300 during 20 campaigns, but not consecutively...
With Philadelphia runners on first and second in the fourth inning of a National League baseball game, Ernest Padgett, recruit shortstop of the Boston Braves, beheld a hot liner coming his way from the plate. Padgett speared the liner, touched second base, ran down and tagged the man coming off first. He had made the fourth unassisted triple play in the recorded history of baseball...
Captain Jenkins is playing football and will be unable to report on Wednesday. His position at shortstop will be ably filled, however, by F. S. Hill '24, who received his letter last spring...
...Rochester, Toronto, Buffalo, Reading, Syracuse, Newark, Jersey City) the pennant was won by Baltimore for the fifth consecutive year- said to be a world's record. Baltimore players who batted .300 or more for the season include: First Base Sheedy, Right Field Jacobson, Catcher Cobb, Third Base Porter, Shortstop Boley. Chief Bender, once of the Philadelphia Athletics, was a member of the pitching staff. James Dunn has managed the Baltimores since...
...final game at the Polo Grounds-Yale 5, Princeton 1-gave "Mo" Berg, Tiger shortstop, difficult opportunities to which he rose so satisfactorily that Brooklyn National League scouts in the stands promptly offered him a Major League contract. Berg played his first game with Brooklyn last week, making one hit (a scratch, through the pitcher's box) and fielding perfectly...