Word: shortstop
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...after practice, he goes directly to his own room, has his bottle of ale sent up, apparently enjoying and certainly inviting hostility. When asked by a Manhattan newspaperman (a man he had known for 20 years) what made him prefer Johnny Pesky at third base and Vern Stephens at shortstop, McCarthy snapped: "I just pushed a button and they came out that way." Marse Joe has been called a push-button manager by sportwriters-and dislikes it as strongly as the late John McGraw resented being called "Muggsy...
Outside of the man behind the plate, the other starting positions seem pretty nearly decided upon. Big Walt Coulson will start at first base, "Sully" Sullivan will take the keystone sack, Ernie Maninno will handle shortstop, and Captain John Coppinger will take his old position at third...
...Varsity regular is left from last reason, Captain Coppinger, who will take over third base. Hard-hitting Wally Coulson moved from his outfield spot of last year, is being groomed for first, and Myles Huntington and Ernie Marino seem to have the inside track for places at second and shortstop...
...Louis last week, the purse-pinched Browns sold, for an estimated $400,000 and 13 lesser-light players, six of their first-stringers-including their homer-hitting Shortstop Vern Stephens. Nobody was jailed. It is not an offense in the U.S. to own a bad team, nor to weaken it further in any way the management chooses. But some of the other American League owners talked as if it should be. President Dan Topping of the New York Yankees demanded an official investigation of the eighth-place Browns. Said he: "We do not want to see the American League become...
...biggest difficulty is trying to forget that he is a shortstop. Fielding ground balls, he scoops them up as if he had a quick throw to make. And because he does not crouch down to block the ball, a lot of grounders dribble between his legs. He also can't seem to break his habit of catching put-out throws two-handed. The Cardinals' Stan Musial, for example, gets a far longer reach by taking throws singlehanded...