Word: infielding
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...room, play ping-pong and poker on company time. All but three have relatives on Scientific's staff-a compact nepotism summed up by O. E. with parental pride: "It's a Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance payroll and never lets the ball get out of the infield...
...eight more games to play-six of them against each other. To watch this croo-cial series, a sell-out crowd jampacked Detroit's Briggs Stadium. Del Baker's Tigers, a scrappy outfit, with three dependable pitchers and five players hitting over .300, had, despite their creaky infield, chugged along neck & neck with the Indians all summer - fighting off the challenges of the Yankees and White Sox in the most exciting stretch run in the history of the American League...
...less surprising than the Yankees' collapse was the Tigers' spurt. Last spring few experts gave Detroit an outside chance to finish in the first division. They had plenty of punch at bat, but their infield was creaky, their pitching questionable...
...Harvard infield now has Ed Buckley at first, Sam Merrill at second Fred Keyes at shortstop, and Gil Whittemore at third. Football Captain Torbert Macdonald and Les Pitchford play the outfield with either Bill Parsons or Leon Hartstone...
...ninth inning Gleason accounted for the last two counters with a single through the infield. Captain "Pooch" Haley and Bud Waldstein formed the nucleus of the outfield while Bart Harvey, Art Scully, Bill Barnes, and Gleason filled out an errorless infield. Bob Axtell did a creditable job at the backstop post...