Word: shortstops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sportswriter Fred Lieb of the New York Evening Post, ended last fortnight when a team including Pitcher Grove, Leftfielder Simmons and Catcher Cochrane of the Philadelphia Athletics, First Baseman Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees, Captain Frank Frisch of the world's champion St. Louis Cardinals, and Shortstop Walter ("Rabbit") Maranville of the Boston Braves, docked at San Francisco. They had played 17 games in Japan, won them all, been seen by 500,000 people. Last week, when he reached his home in The Bronx, where his mother often frys eels for him and other Yankees, First Baseman...
...third inning, the Athletics got their first hit, a single by Jimmy Dykes which bounced off the glove of low Third Baseman High. Then Dibrell Williams, new Philadelphia shortstop, made a single that sent Dykes to third. Grove struck out and Dykes was thrown out when Bishop hit a weak grounder. The next man up, George ("Mule") Haas, knocked a double into left field that scored one run and left two on base. Young Paul Derringer mopped his face with a handkerchief. The stands were so quiet that when a man in the grandstand coughed, the Philadelphia coach at first...
Edgar W. Warren II, shortstop and captain-elect of the Yale baseball team, was thrown from a speeding motorboat on Raquette Lake, N. Y. The outboard propeller gashed his left arm. After two blood transfusions two days later the arm was amputated. At Yale a movement started to retain him as baseball captain, with a lieutenant to direct play afield. His teammate Albie Booth, football and basketball captain, who was also a leading candidate for the baseball captaincy, hurried from New Haven to Warren's bedside...
...receiving a pass. McGrath hit safely, and advanced to third on Ticknor's sacrifice fly, later scoring on an error by Cragan, visiting backstop. Des Roches made the second Harvard tally, receiving a pass; and advancing on Cragan's error, scoring a moment later when Potter, Rhode Island shortstop, threw the ball into the Harvard dugout. Wood flied out for the final...
...while Assistant Dean Henry Chauncey '27 is to occupy the catcher's berth. F. B. Cutts '28, who as an undergraduate featured in four victories over Yale, is to twirl for the graduates, while E. R. Todd '29, and R. D. Sullivan '28 will play at right field and shortstop respectively...