Word: shortstops
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Davison High School, he did everything. And Harvard head coach Joe Walsh noticed.Besides captaining the hockey and football teams, Salsgiver—also a first-team “character,” according to Walsh—frequently pitched the first game of doubleheaders before suiting up at shortstop in the second, and often came out of the bullpen to close out the nightcap.He set 15 different school records, both as a hurler and at the plate, where he set marks for home runs and hit almost .530 for his career.The kid who lived on a farm...
...Considering his freshman status last year and his effort at learning an entirely new position—he switched to center from shortstop, his high school position—Vance had an outstanding rookie year, hitting .275 and leading the team with 15 stolen bases. Still, much room for improvement remains, as Vance will hope to lower his number of strikeouts—he led the team with 37—steal more bases, and get on at an even higher clip in front of the rest of the Crimson’s power-laden lineup...
...here playing baseball,” says Joe Walsh, his Harvard coach, “he’d be in Torino.” It was an awkward twist, this, his new fitness agenda, driving nails. As fate would have it for the surehanded All-Ivy shortstop, so was the accident that led him there.“You think a ball hits you in the nose, that’s enough pain right there,” Walsh says. “But you never think that you’re going to be on the emergency table...
...innings during a game last fall. “[Vertovez] is going to play a large role for us on the mound right away,” Allard says, “and in the middle infield.”In addition to pitching, Vertovez will back up at shortstop and second base, making her preparation for the season especially difficult. She has to split time in the cage and on the field, not to mention on the mound.In this final area, Vertovez will provide a much needed change-up for the Crimson pitching staff. She is a rise-ball...
...There were heart-stopping offensive heroics like Scott Podsednik's ninth-inning homer that decided Game One and Geoff Blum's 14th-inning game-winning shot in Game Three, in what was his first World Series at-bat. And in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game Four, shortstop Juan Uribe made a defensive marvel of a play by hurling himself into the left-field seats to grab a foul ball, thereby helping snuff out a Houston threat to a fragile Sox lead...