Word: baseman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outfield in the league. The Boston Red Sox, still in the process of rebuilding, are likely to get into the first division. The prospects of the Philadelphia Athletics will depend largely on the success of 72-year-old Manager Connie Mack's experiment of turning his star first-baseman. Jimmy Foxx, into a catcher. Probable tail-enders: the aging Senators, the dispirited St. Louis Browns, the consistently feeble Chicago White...
Died. Joseph Harold ("Hal") Skelly, 43, comedian; when his automobile was struck by a train; near West Cornwall, Conn. At times in a difficult career he was altar boy, prizefight manager, first baseman for the Boston "Braves," circus acrobat, medicine man hawker, trouper in Japan, China. His greatest stage success was the hoofer, "Skid," in Burlesque which he also played in a cinema version called The Dance of Life. Other plays: No, No, Nanette, Fiddlers Three, The Night Boat, Fifty Million Frenchmen (in England). His last was Come What May (TIME...
From then until the fourth both teams were inactive as far as tallies were concerned. But with the beginning of the fourth the Elis started to even things up. Their second baseman, Johnny Dugan, had been walked and had stolen second when first-sacker Dave Armstrong slammed out the longest hit of the day, a triple to right field. That made the situation one all as Fred Mitchell's tutees came to the plate...
...first day of practice at Orlando, hit the first ball ever pitched to him by a big-leaguer for a home-run. Considered ablest last week, when most of their confrères were on their way back to minor league teams, were the Yankees' young second baseman and shortstop, Don Heffner and Red Rolfe, who last week seemed likely to be regulars this season. Heffner is a young Baltimorean who last year fielded brilliantly and had a batting average of .293 with the Baltimore Orioles. His main worry is his weight, 155-lb.; to increase it last autumn...
...done in 1914-break up his team. With tears in his eyes he reeled off as fast as he could the names of the players he was selling. Out went Pitcher "Lefty" Grove and Catcher "Mickey" Cochrane. Out went Pitchers "Rube"' Walberg & George Earnshaw and Second Baseman Max Bishop. In came three new players and $295,000 in cash. Then Manager Mack strode from the room, took refuge in the suite of Tom Yawkey who had paid him $160,000 for Grove, Walberg and Bishop...