Word: baseman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Missed train connections to Cornell almost deprived the Varsity baseball team of its regular third baseman last Saturday. Frank Owens rushed to the South Station Friday night to catch the Midnight to Syracuse, only to find that the rest of the ball team had left an hour earlier...
...number of "holdouts"-players who threatened not to play unless their owners paid them what they thought they deserved. Only remaining major holdouts last week were Yankee Pitcher Charles Ruffing who was demanding $1,000 more than the $16,000 Owner Jacob Ruppert thought he was worth, and First Baseman Adolph Camilli of the Phillies. Second symptom was a request by Representative Raymond J. Cannon of Wisconsin to U. S. Attorney General Homer Cummings to start anti-trust proceedings against owners of all organized U. S. baseball clubs on the grounds that they were operating a monopoly in restraint...
...Boston Red Sox baseball team broke training at Sarasota. Fla., started north without Manager Joseph Cronin, whose wife had twins (boy & girl) born Shortstop Eric McNair, whose wife died in childbirth at Meridian. Miss.; Sec-Baseman Oscar Melillo, whose wife suttered a relapse in Chicago following the birth...
...Coach Skip Stanley's chief problems; right now he is alternating his new zone defence with the old man to man style of play. On the offense he is striving for more speed and scientific aggressiveness. Observers are predicting "more punch" for the 1937 edition of the first baseman's ball tossers. And there are a lot of good players...
Among receivers at work are Philip C. Staples ocC, ineligible last year, on whom Coach Mitchell bases considerable hopes, and Elliot C. Bacon, who caught on the 19398 undefeated Freshman team. Arthur L. Johns '39, second baseman and captain of this historic Yardling nine, is already limbering up for the infield drive...