Word: shortstop
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Honus Wagner, Pittsburg's great shortstop, led the senior circuit eight times while Ty Cobb holds the major league record with 12 American League titles...
...something far more spectacular than extra sleep. He called on his best pitcher, ambidextrous Angel Macias, a twelve-year-old 88-pounder with a fine assortment of curves and sliders, plus a plain, old-fashioned fast ball under disciplined control. Against Bridgeport, Angel had played a flawless game at shortstop. He can, in fact, play any position on the team-becomes a southpaw on first base, a righthander in the rest of the infield, whatever he happens to feel like when he switches to the outfield. At bat, says he, he is a "turnover" hitter like his hero Mickey Mantle...
Freckle-Fisted Winner. So the Braves won. They hung on in the National League pennant scramble even after First Baseman Joe Adcock broke his leg, and Outfielder Bill Bruton and Shortstop Johnny Logan limped over to join him on the sidelines. Somehow Manager Fred Haney kept on fielding a team. (At one time his outfield consisted of Catcher Del Crandall, Utility First Baseman Nippy Jones and Bonus Baby John DeMerit.) And somehow the Braves kept winning, put together a ten-game winning streak that knocked the St. Louis Cardinals out of the lead and broke up the fight...
...There was never much chance that Kansas City Manager Lou Boudreau could teach his inept Athletics to win more ball games than they lost. And there was never much doubt that he would be fired if he failed. As the A's kept losing, the affable ex-shortstop lost his job last week after 15 years of major-league managing. Boudreau's successor: Harry Craft, one of Kansas City's coaches...
...through both games of a doubleheader, has a little trouble now and then getting his legs to catch up with pop fouls. But he can still hit a baseball with deadly precision, is second in the league in batting (.342), homers (21), and runs batted in (67). Giant castoff Shortstop Al Dark, 34, is hitting a solid .295, holds the infield together with his big glove and his spark-plugging chatter. Even Walker Cooper, the Cards' great catcher of the '40s, is creaking his 42-year-old bones off the bench to pinch-hit home an occasional...