Word: shortstop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Three players played over 50 games at shortstop during the regular season for the 1968 champion Tigers. None of them started a game in the fall classic as another player started all seven games. Name the four players involved...
...smart money says the Angels are a flawed team: too many injuries, no shortstop, little speed, middling defense. Still, the offense can erupt against any pitcher. Says Slugger Baylor: "We put a lot of sixes and sevens on the Scoreboard." One thing the Angels do have is the peppy slogan required of all Cinderella teams. For the 1969 Mets it was "You gotta believe"; for the 1979 Angels, "Yes, we can." After last week's clincher, Manager Jim Fregosi unveiled a T shirt with the inevitable updating: YES, WE DID. If the team can say that...
...Angel Shortstop Jim Anderson poured champagne over the presidential head, and Second Baseman Bobby Grich completed the double play by adding a beer chaser. The team's best-known fan, Richard M. Nixon, was delighted by the ritual horseplay of the Angel's locker-room victory party. "Anybody want some more good California champagne?" asked Nixon, wiping his pate. "You can squeeze it right out of this towel." Before leaving, Nixon dutifully made his round of the players, offering congratulations and advising Outfielder Joe Rudi about his real estate investments in Oregon...
...against St. John is that he has an erratic arm, certainly nothing like Buckley's or Brown's or Kubacki's. But it's adequate. St. John has started for Harvard's baseball team for three years in the shortstop slot, a position that requires some degree of arm strength. And let's not forget that the last time St. John played with some regularity, as a freshman, he was 46--92 for 577 yards, 6 interceptions and 6 touchdowns. Not too shabby...
...dropoff has thrust senior signal caller Burke St. John into the starting role, backed up by junior Jim Keyte. Both starters for the baseball team--St. John at shortstop and Keyte on the mound--the pair have talent but lack varsity playing time...