Word: shortstop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scored the game's only run in the bottom of the fifth when second baseman John Rocco tripled with one out. He scored two batters later on shortstop Jay Corrigale's RBI single...
...first inning, Harvard stranded sophomore shortstop Deborah Abeles on first after she got on board with a single...
...Honus Wagner card, with a portrait of the all-time great Pittsburgh Pirate shortstop, is one of the rarest of all baseball cards. An identical one was sold by Christie's in September of 1996, for $640,000--a record for any item of sports memorabilia at auction...
Still, the 1998 Yankees are a hard story to tell, because when talented individuals actually fold themselves into a group, it's harder for their personalities to shine. To be sure, Derek Jeter, the previously Mariah Carey-dating shortstop, seems kind of slick, and Paul O'Neill has a warrior self-hatred thing, banging into walls and throwing down his helmet whenever he grounds out. And Shane Spencer, a lifetime minor leaguer who was called up at the end of the season to hit a barrage of grand slams, seemed like the Natural. But this team kept even Strawberry...
...that sounds like overreaching, for Schnatter it's nothing new. As a 5-ft. 6-in. high school shortstop in Jeffersonville, Ind., Schnatter vowed to become the best player at his position in the history of his school. Rising at 5 a.m. to lift weights and work out with the swim team, he set a record for fewest errors that stands today. (He brings a similar ardor to his current golf game, meticulously studying videotapes of his swing.) At the same time, Schnatter baked pizza at Rocky's Sub Pub, a neighborhood hangout, where he learned to make fresh dough...