Word: shortstop
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...shortstop for Gloucester High, Stuffy blocked enough grounders and broke up enough ball games with his bat to get himself taken on by Haverhill of the New England League. Billy Madden, who managed the Beverly team and also scouted for Connie Mack, was so impressed by young McInnis' hitting ability that he persuaded him to join with Beverly. "My association with Harvard started then," says Stuffy. "The 1907 Beverly club had Eddic Grant, Bill Matthews, and Eddic Loughlin, all students at Harvard Law School...
...salary was a big boost over Boudreau's 1948 pay of $52,000, and (according to Veeck) "by far the largest straight salary ever offered a player by the club."* But Lou had earned it with his spectacular triple performance-as the American League's best shortstop, its best hitter (.355) after Boston's Ted Williams, and manager of the league and world's champions. President Veeck threw in a handsome admission: "Sure, I tried to trade the guy off [in 1947]. But the fans wouldn't stand for it . . . So Boudreau made...
...talk on shortstop and second base playing by Boston University coach Fred McGuire will conclude the clinic...
...freshman was last year captain of the Exeter basketball squad and also was captain and shortstop of the baseball team. Hickey has been first-string forward this season...
...Versatile Alvin Dark, 25, ex-Louisiana State football star now shortstop for the Boston Braves, won out as National League "Rookie-of-the-Year" in an Associated Press poll of 220 sportwriters. The American League "Rookie-of-the-Year": sensational Gene Bearden, Cleveland's 28-year-old southpaw pitcher...