Word: shortstop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commerce told him to get better players and offered to ' pay for them. He sent for Weaver and Gandil. The Chambermen began to pay out $10,000 a month; the three unfrocked players began to win games for Douglas. Chase plays center field; Gandal is at first; Weaver at shortstop is the best of the three. Quick on his feet as a puma, he covers a huge amount of ground; his batting average is over .500; gangling cowboys ride hundreds of miles to yell at him; gamblers, preachers, saloon keepers, dance hall girls from the honkeytonk towns across the border...
...Crimson started off with a rush in the first frame when Ellison drove a hard grounder at Di Giovanni, getting two bases when the Springfield infielder juggled the play and threw wild to first. Zarakov came through with a clean hit through shortstop, scoring Ellison. He stole second a moment later, and scored when Tobin produced the first of the three bingles which he collected during the afternoon. The Crimson first baseman--was caught for the third out when he attempted to steal second...
Against the Springfield College nine no change in the infield is expected. Against Holy Cross, Keene filled the shortstop position handling eight chances with a single error and getting two hits out of four trips to the plate. If he can continue his hitting, and his fielding is almost sure to improve with a little more regular action, the infield problem caused by Howard's injury will probably have found its happiest solution...
...announced another shift in the Crimson line-up, less than two weeks before the Yale series. The new arrangement, which will go into effect this afternoon, will see Zarakov restored to his old place at the hot corner, with Keene, late of the Seconds, filling Howard's place at shortstop. This change is looked upon by Crimson baseball followers as indicating not so much that Zarakov is appreciably better at third than he is at short as that there is no one else on the squad capable of holding down the seek adequately...
...Coach Mahan's last drive before the Blue series. In all likelihood, Captain Hammond will be back in the line-up before the week is over, and Crimson baseball followers are picking him to be in the second base berth against Bates tomorrow. That Zarakov will remain in the shortstop position seems to be a certainty now. Howard has returned to Cambridge, and is recuperating rapidly, but the chances of his seeing baseball action again this spring are very slim. With Tobin fairly securely established at the initial sack, the hot corner is the only place left in the infield...