Word: shortstops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been widely believed (but never proved) to be Negroes. Last week, after three years and $25,000 worth of scouting the Negro leagues, Branch ("The Brain") Rickey called in reporters-not to make a confession but to tell the world that Brooklyn had signed Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a Negro shortstop...
...regarding the personal customizing of bats, as Yankee Third Baseman Graig Nettles well knows. Several seasons ago, the barrel of Nettles' bat went off embarrassingly and a spray of little rubber balls shot forth. Nettles was the first man ever to bounce out to the third baseman, the shortstop and the second baseman all at once. Recently in Kansas City, he noticed Brett's bat was duty and mentioned it to Coach Don Zimmer...
...deeper than 15 years of the Expos and seven seasons of the Blue Jays. Before Brooklyn or Los Angeles ever knew of Walter Alston, he managed the Dodgers Triple A team in Montreal, and Jackie Robinson played there in 1946. "Those were happy summers," says Al Campanis, the Montreal shortstop then, the Dodger general manager now. Before Cincinnati or Detroit ever heard of Sparky Anderson, he managed in Toronto. When Toronto grew past the point of accepting the minor leagues of anything, baseball left town for nine years. It returned to a faint but polite recognition...
Then came the showdown with the host team Maine jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the-first, and shortstop Fred Staples threw three Crimson runners out at the plate. But sophomore Jeff Musselman held Maine scoreless for five innings, and Harvard scraped together a run in the bottom of the sixth to tie the game...
...watched a six-run lead disappear in the last two innings of regulation play, then saw Dartmouth shortstop Ray Bascio carry the winning run to third in the bottom of the eighth. But the Big Green stranded Bascio, and the Harvard bats came alive in the top of the ninth...