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Harvard struck early in both games and made the leads stand up under pressure. Third baseman Jimmy Stoeckel started things rolling in the third inning of the opener, scoring an unearned run. Stoeckel singled and then advanced to scoring position on a passed ball that moved him to third...
Harvard rallied in the ninth, but came up a run short. With one away, first baseman Leigh Hogan banged a base hit into right and moved into scoring position on a walk to Jimmy Stoeckel. Following a fly out by Dave St. Pierre, Hal Smith drove Hogan home with a single, putting Harvard on the board...
...Second baseman Larry Barbiaux sent Stoeckel across the plate with a single, but that was all Harvard could muster. Pinch hitter Joe Sciolla flew out to end the game...
...after a dispute with authoritarian Manager John McGraw, Frisch was traded to the Cardinals for another Hall of Fame second baseman, Rogers Hornsby. St. Louis fans were dismayed, but only temporarily. The Cardinals won pennants in 1928, 1930 and 1931, and Frisch again figured prominently in the triumphs. Then, as a playing manager, he oversaw the antics of the rambunctious Cardinal Gas House Gang. Frisch continued to play until 1937. In one game that year, Fellow Cardinal Terry Moore nearly overtook him as both men sprinted around the bases. "When they start to climb up the back...
Died. Frank (the "Fordham Flash") Frisch, 74, fiery second baseman for the New York Giants during the 1920s, later player-manager of the St. Louis Cardinals' Gas House Gang (see SPORT...