Word: shortstops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter's desk detailing the problems involved in the Post Office's getting into the business of transmitting electronic data. Top aides did not think it was necessary for the President himself to study the arguments, but as one of them explains: "There was no way to shortstop it, no place for it to go except to the President." Carter himself was part of the problem. He enjoyed minutiae, from details of shale rock formations to the precise boundaries of West Bank settlements. Says another aide: "Carter ended up mediating everything...
...hitting like mad. The team average is .291, highest in the majors, and in a recently completed twelve-game home stand, St. Louis batted an astonishing .364. Seven of the starters are hitting over their lifetime averages. Rightfielder George Hendrick, 29, is batting .342, fourth in the league, and Shortstop Garry Templeton, 23, is averaging .332 and fielding with a brilliance that recalls the feats of the great Marty ("Slats") Marion, who played the position for the glorious Cardinal teams of the 1940s. With the hits falling like raindrops, small wonder that the Cards celebrate each victory in the locker...
...Marty Marion 105)Ken Boyer 106)Gene Mauch (his nephew is shortstop Roy Smalley, III) 107)Yogi Berra 108)Joe McCarthy. Yogi Berra and Al Dark
Meanwhile, Brown, who had succeeded in slithering out of a bases-loaded, 3-and-1 count jam in the seventh, gave way to reliever Ron Stewart in the eighth. Steward likewise Houdinied from a sacks-filled situation in the ninth by tagging out shortstop Gary Masse on a not-so-passed passed ball, but not until after he had yielded Dartmouth's fourth run on a sacrifice...
...Shortstop St. John, who has been cracking the ball at a .429 clip over the last ten games, had three doubles on Saturday. "I closed up my stance about two weeks ago and the pitches have been looking like grapefruits ever since," he said...