Word: shortstops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard was hitless up to the third inning, when third baseman Mike Drummey sent one screaming into deep left-center field for a stand-up triple. Following him, Terry Bartolet slapped an easy grounder to Tufts shortstop Guidi, but Guidi booted it. Drummey scored and Bartolet, safe on first, made it 2 to 0 on Dave Morse's double to center before the inning was over. The Harvard rally came with...
...this point the team's strong point is a slick fielding if not power-laden infield. Returning from last year are first baseman Phil Bernstein, shortstop Dave Morse, and third baseman Mike Drummey. The fourth starter is junior Terry Bartolet...
...Army, already up to its boot-tops in professional athletic talents, last week snared two more famous names: New York Yankee Shortstop Tony Kubek, 25, married only two weeks, who joined Wisconsin's Red Arrow Division at Fort Lewis, Wash., and Green Bay Packer Halfback Paul Hornung, 25, top scorer in the National Football League, who reports next week to Fort Riley, Kans., at the end of a two-week deferment granted on medical grounds. Said Hornung, who originally was disqualified because of a pinched nerve in his neck, then pronounced fit after a second exam...
...doesn't much matter what else you do, or how people feel about you, or what your personality is. Winning is all that counts." To tighten the shaky Yankee defense, Houk discarded Casey Stengel's platooning tactics, installed Tony Kubek permanently at shortstop, slick-fielding Cletis Boyer at third. To get more power into his lineup, he shifted Catcher Yogi Berra to leftfield, made longtime Second Stringer Elston Howard the No. 1 catcher...
Somehow team morale survived. Shortstop Ruben Amaro, 25, and Third Baseman Charlie Smith, 23, tried so hard that they drove themselves to exhaustion and had to be benched. After collisions with a wall in St. Louis and a Scoreboard in Pittsburgh, Utility Outfielder Bobby Gene Smith went right on giving his all-until a physical examination revealed a broken rib. In the locker room, heads rarely sagged in despair. "We all felt we were going to win each day," said Pitcher Art Mahaffey, who lost ten games in a row. "If you lose that feeling, you might as well quit...