Word: sluggers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stahl did not release a starting lineup, but recent practices have seen four new Freshmen on the first nine, bolstered by five veterans. Warren Berg, experienced right-hander, will probably take the mound, with Ned Fitzgibbons, slugger transplanted from first base and the out-field, as his battery mate. Fitz is expected to bat in the clean-up slot...
Stahl has a fair sprinkling of veterans still on hand, and it is around these men that he intends to mold his 1943 club. Ned Fitzgibbons, the team's foremost slugger, who has played at first base and in the outfield for Harvard, has been shifted to the catcher's job, a post where he is more at home...
B.B.R.'s citizens elect their own mayor, lawmaking council and other officers, together with a judge and prosecuting attorney. If one boy slugs another, the victim may enter a bill of complaint. The slugger is tried, either pleading his own case or being defended by a "lawyer." If guilty, he is sentenced to such chores as window cleaning or is exiled for several days from the B.B.R.'s library, ping-pong tables, sports, etc. "None of us ever gets in trouble with the law, except our own laws," said the B.B.R.'s report...
...sport for creaking oldtimers and freakish 4-Fs. Two hundred and one big-leaguers (more than 50% of the regular personnel) have joined the armed forces, including such key players as the Cardinals' Enos Slaughter and Johnny Beazley, the Yankees' "Red" Ruffing and Phil Rizzuto, Dodger Slugger Pete Reiser and Red Sox 1942 Player-of-the-year Ted Williams. Last week two more mainstays were headed warward: Yankee Joe DiMaggio and Dodger Manager Leo ("Lippy") Durocher...
...Rudman lost his mound battle with visiting hurler Dean Ellis in the fourth inning, when a lapse in the Crimson inner defense allowed the lone score. After Lawrence slugger Nick Rodis whaled a triple to deep left, Rudman issued his only pass to Joe Hennessey. Then, with men on first and third, the Lawrence squad pulled a double steal, successful because shortstop Jim Gallagher and second sacker Vinnie Leahy crossed their signals on a cut-off play designed to nail Rodis at the plate...