Word: infielding
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...first stanza, Trojanowski, Jorgensen, and Connell banged our successive singles to score the first run; Connell was declared out for passing Jorgensen on the base paths. Singles by Dropo, Granato, and Dziadul's followed, Granato being erased trying to go from first to third on Dziadul's infield hit. Veal struck out to end the three run inning...
...Detroit, the Tigers were long on pitching, led by Hal Newhouser; long on hitting (if cocky Slugger Dick Waken eld hit the way he talked, he would lead the league). But the Tigers had a sieve for an infield...
...infield seems to be the brightest sport in the Crimson picture, with at least two positions pretty well sewed up at the moment. Bill Fitz, a veteran of the '42 summer team, and the first man to play. Varsity ball under the wartime Freshman eligibility, looms are one of the best first base prospects in many years, while Don Swegan, of football and basketball fame, is holding forth at shortstop...
...been bad enough having Harold Ickes slam down his mitt and stomp off the field. Picking a substitute was almost worse. With big Ed Pauley ducking pop bottles, and Harry Truman's Missouri infield hobbling weak grounders, the President's critics were ready to boo almost anyone he sent in. But last week some of them actually found themselves applauding his new Secretary of the Interior, tall (6 ft. 3 in.), huge (237 Ibs.), young (38) Julius Albert Krug, last chairman of the late War Production Board...
...Philadelphia Athletics' 23-year-old Dick Fowler, making his first »tart since getting a Canadian Army discharge, confounded the-St. Louis Browns with a cagey mixture of sliders and fast balls. He struck out six, walked four, allowed only five balls to be hit beyond the infield. Afterwards, the 6 ft. 4 in. hurler telephoned his wife: "I did it, honey...