Word: shortstop
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...Cleveland Indians had the league's best four-man pitching staff-Bob Feller, Steve Gromek, Red Embree, Allie Reynolds-and the league's best shortstop, Player-Manager Lou Boudreau...
...moment. Bill Fitz, a veteran of the '42 summer team, and the first man to play. Varsity ball under the wartime Freshman eligibility, looms are one of the best first base prospects in many years, while Don Swegan, of football and basketball fame, is holding forth at shortstop...
...captained the hockey and baseball teams (playing shortstop), was elected president of the student council, joined Hasty Pudding, Phoenix Club and Signet Society, among others. He developed a passion for foreign cars. He owned, in turn, a Mercedes, Voisin, Panhard-Levassor, Hispano-Suiza. After graduation, with only average grades, he put in a short tour of duty in the postwar army. Then his father's friend George Lee gave him a job in his investment banking house of Lee, Higginson...
...Airman Wilbur Wright died of typhoid, not pneumonia, as TIME had said. A brief dissertation on the subject of Cain's wife led to a longer one on Calvin Coolidge's mistaking (in a speech) a hit by Baseball's Walter Johnson for an error by Shortstop Jackson. ED. agreed that it would be silly to choose a Chief Executive for his knowledge of baseball...
...second hit of the game, a short line drive that dropped just in front of the left fielder. Eckenroth looked at two strikes and then hit a hard ball back of second, and it looked like it was going out to center field for a hit; but the Bruin shortstop made a spectacular stop of the ball and just threw Eckenroth out at first, putting the damper on the rally...