Word: shortstops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bilodeau presently appears to have the task of succeeding Dave Morse at shortstop. (Morse, the team's captain last year, is now with Class A El Paso, a Giant farm club.) Bilodeau hit .390 for the freshman last season, kept in shape by lettering in football this Fall. He has the speed and fielding skills for the job, but may need some seasoning before double plays are a certainty...
...injuries to bat .321 and hit 30 homers, edged his teammate, Second Baseman Bobby Richardson. The M.V.P. award was Mantle's third; Roger Maris, who won it in 1960 and 1961, did not get a single vote this year. The National League's most valuable: Dodger Shortstop Maury Wills, who set a major-league record by stealing 106 bases-and won by a scant seven votes over Giant Centerfielder Willie Mays...
...matter how the rest of the series went, one man who came out ahead was Giant Manager Alvin Dark. A teetotaling, tithing Louisianan who plays golf in the 70s, onetime Shortstop Dark, 39, sparked the Boston Braves to a pennant in 1948, did the same for the Giants in 1954, when he teamed with the mercurial Eddie Stanky to give Coogan's Bluff the best double-play combination in the National League. A pennant winner in his sophomore year as Giant manager, Dark runs the club with the solicitude of a tenderhearted drill sergeant. He never swears...
...break Babe Ruth's 34-year-old record. The day seemed not far off when bleacher fans would wear the gloves and ballplayers would drink the beer. But this year, excitement suddenly came back to baseball-at least in ballparks where a coil-spring, 30-year-old shortstop named Maury Wills was playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 161 games, with two games to go, Wills stole an even 100 bases, shattering the record of 96 set by Ty Cobb. and that was way back...
...SHORTSTOP--Overwhelming New New York superiority here, as Ralph Houk can play either Tony Kubek (.314) or the obvious Rookie of the Year choice, Tom Tresh. The Giants have Pagan, a good solid, steady, but unsensational...