Word: shortstops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serial predecessors in "The Baseball Nine Books," as a series of trenchant treatises on scholastic morality. The scrivener to whom the beginnings of the series are ascribed is Christy Mathewson. His titles read: Pitcher Pollock, Catcher Craig, First Base Faulkner, Second Base Sloan. The array leads one to anticipate Shortstop Sutphen, Left Fielder Lumley, Center Fielder Cathcart and Right Fielder Rabinowitz...
...Author. Everett Scott is captain and shortstop of the New York Yankees, champions of the American League. He is thirty-two, bats and throws right-handed. He has to his credit a world's record of 1,002 consecutive scheduled games played in the big league. He is considered by many critics to be the greatest shortstop in the game...
...weeks, the team is displaying good form and both the first and second infields are working smoothly. The infield consists of veteran material, Ruane at first base, a last year's veteran, Cochrane, another veteran at the second sack, with Williamson at the hot corner and Crosson at shortstop...
...will join the squad. It is not certain when Owen and Hammond will report. Two other members of last year's Freshman team who are showing up well are G. W. Burgess '25, a first-string centerfielder, and L. O. V. Mann '25, who should make a good substitute shortstop. As nearly as it is possible to predict so early in the season the first team will consist of: Pitchers, K. N. Hill and Toulmin; catchers, Larrabee and Samborski; first base, Owen; second base, Hammond; shortstop, Jenkins; third base, Buell and F. S. Hill; right field, Gordon; center field, burgess...
...made. J. E. Knowlton from Middlesex will probably play second and H. I. Pratt from Groton will hold down third. J. C. McGlone, another Exeter man, has not reported yet as he is still detained by track, but he will probably become the team's first-string shortstop as soon as the track season ends. It is impossible at present to make any selection from among the candidates for the outfield...