Word: infielding
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...such scintillation all summer? Sad to relate, it's practically non-existent now. No less than 5 members of that intrepid crew got axed by the academic department, which, with an eye to niceties, neatly amputated the battery and outfield. Feeling that it would look silly with just the infield out there, the team has broken up and is now in the process of becoming stronger and stronger as its exploits pass from one tongue to another. A month from now you'll hear about the time that we topped the Red Sox with a 7-run rally...
Sports Page: "Carney Pitches Midshipmen to Moral Vicory Over Supply School Officers." .. Courageously supported by a sterling infield, and what looked to this observer like a pennant winning battery, "Red" "Buster" "Big League" Carney pitched a band-up second inning ball game last Tuesday, almost winning his own fray with a .670 batting average. After seven (7) successive walks by a weary Supply School pitcher, the Middies rosily opened up to score five runs in the second inning. Another one-run rally in the fifth led the Carneyites to a moral victory in the seven inning thriller that made...
...told the story in the Jumbo affair. With two men out, Sherman Clark hit a sharp single to left, and Gleason followed with a two-bagger, Clark pulling up at third, Captain Moe Berg dumped a bunt down the third base line and Clark romped home while the Jumbo infield waited anxiously and vainly for the ball to roll foul. Walt Sorgi clouted a long double, scoring Gleason and Berg, to clinch the ball game...
...Fitzgibbons strolled to start off the inning, and galloped to third on a passed ball. Wally Flynn, passed purposely, stole second, and both he and Fitz came in on Slattery's single to left. Jay Gleason's single moved Slats around, and he scored on Berg's infield...
...Shields, who seems to be ensconced at third base for Floyd Stahl, blasted a double along the left field line, Sorgi stopping at third. When ex-big leaguer Jim Hegan endured the ignominy of a passed ball a moment later, Sorgi scored, and Shields tallied on Gerry Callauan's infield...