Word: centerfielder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bill Kelly also went the distance in several games last year. Park has called him the best all-around athlete on the team and has used him at shortstop and centerfield during the past two years. "He pitched very strongly in the summer league so we'll develop him solely as a pitcher this year," Park said...
...record (best year: 1927 with 26-15) over 17 seasons. But he is best known for that day in the 1932 World Series when the Babe, in response to a fan's heckling, pointed to the bleachers, then blasted a Root pitch over the centerfield stand to the cheers of 51,000 witnesses...
...last half of the twelfth, the Reds' Pete Rose singled, advanced to second, and then came barreling for home on a single to centerfield by the Cubs' Jim Hickman. His way blocked by the Indians' Ray Fosse, Rose hurtled headlong into the burly catcher, knocked him into a somersault and landed splat on the plate for the winning run. "If I had slid," Rose said after the National League's 5-to-4 victory, "I would have broken both legs." As it was, Rose suffered a bruised thigh and Fosse a severely wrenched shoulder-injuries that...
Yastrzemski's double, a wild pitch and an error gave Boston its first run in the opening inning. That margin vanished in the third when Frank Howard (again) bounced a two-out, 3-2 pitch off the centerfield wall, scoring two runs. Retaliation came in the seventh...
...ready to say where it will all end. In a recent game against the Mets in San Francisco, the Giants' weak-hitting shortstop Hal Lanier poled a towering drive over the left centerfield wall that traveled at least 430 ft. It was Lanier's second homer in three years...