Word: infielding
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Both squads will spend this week throwing, batting, running, and playing pepper games. McInnis plans to start infield drills on Friday...
...Pantheon. Under the sullen October sky, the grass of the infield gleamed, a green patch on the city's blotched and gritty drabness. In the deep rows of private boxes, maintained by Manhattan firms for the pleasure of their customers, and in the special seats reserved for the favored, were the notables, the affluent and the politicians-the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover, ex-President Herbert Hoover, Douglas MacArthur, Margaret Truman and Heavyweight Champion Joe Walcott. Among them sat the aging stars of past series-Rogers Hornsby, Carl Hubbell, Mel Ott, Frankie Frisch-a shadowy, wistful, watching pantheon...
McInnis played first base in the $100,000 Philadelphia Athletics infield that lost four straight Series games to the "Miracle" Braves of 1914. But he thinks the Giants, compared frequently to that Boston team of old, deserve more credit. "Those Braves started their drive on the 4th of July," he points out. "Remember, in mid-August they were saying that the Dodgers were going to win by 25 games...
...Browns and their adherents were having more fun than ever in the basement. A thousand grandstand managers sitting in a special section of the stands used big cards labeled "yes" and "no" to run the Browns' strategy against the Athletics, choosing the lineup, directing the infield play and steering Pitcher Ned Garver to his isth...
...politico sadly: "Jim Duff, hell, he's just a junior Senator from Pennsylvania down in Washington. He's off in deep left-field and he's got the sun in his eyes. One of these days the ball's going to get out of the infield and he won't even...