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Morelli and third baseman Paul Rooney cracked RBI singles, scoring Jim DePalo and McAndrews--who had pulled a double steal to get into scoring position...
Because in the end, Montuori scored from second on a kelly Davenport single to right, crossing the plate just ahead of Harvard second baseman Mary Baldauf's desperation throw...
...There was some confusion on this question. We meant major league players with the same last name; obviously no one named Lisa Anderson has ever played professional baseball. Sorry about the confusion. Anyway, among the namesakes are Mike Anderson (Philadelphia outfielder in the early '70s), Cliff Brady (Boston second baseman in 1920), Alta Cohen (Giant infielder in the 1920s), Mel and Albert Hall, Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, Rich Nye (Cub pitcher in the 1960s), Pat Putnam, Jim Price (Tiger catcher in the late '60s), and Earl Wilson. Glenn Hoffman spells his name with only...
...round man on a cane, Dan has lost a hip to arthritis, actually to a childhood of peanut and cotton farming, compounded by adult years operating a belt in a phosphate factory. Still, something visible remains of the athlete, the first baseman who followed Uclesee to the Albany Red Sox and later coached semi-pro teams in Tampa. "My daddy carried me around like I carried Dwight around," says Dan, noting that none of the three sons from his first marriage ever embraced the game. "Oh, but it pleased me when Dwight took it up. 'Baseball, baseball,' his mother liked...
...played a tidy second base for Earl Weaver's best teams in Baltimore. During the '60s, before computers were cool, Johnson wrote a program designed, as he put it, to "optimize" the Oriole lineup. Weaver never got around to installing it, but he loved to hear his second baseman talk. To Johnson there are no "hitting streaks" or "hot hands." There are "favorable chance deviations." The Mets' general manager, Frank Cashen, also came from Baltimore. He is considered conservative, though ( a better word would be careful. While Cashen tilts especially toward caution in the development of 19-year-old arms...