Word: shortstops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last season's regular shortstop, Paul Halas, has moved over to second base. Burke St. John, quarterback for this 'season's frosh football team, will now be calling the signals at short, while Halas joins freshmen Mike Stenhouse. Bobby Kelley and Charlie Santos-Buch in a fourman dogfight for the keystone stop...
Ernie Banks has not been heard from much since he retired as an active player with the Chicago Cubs in 1971. The shortstop-first baseman, who hit 512 home runs in his 19 seasons with the team, has worked as a coach at Wrigley Field and as a roving instructor for the Cubs' farm system. But he never lost the sunny disposition that made him one of the best-loved players in baseball. "It's a beautiful day for a ball game," he would often say. "Let's play two." If a doubleheader was scheduled, he would...
This is a serious business, this matter of voting. I mean it's one thing to punch those Gillette computer cards when you're already half-cocked in the Fenway bleachers, because it doesn't really matter if Fred Stanley or Steve Dillard is starting American League shortstop in the All-Star game...
...second game, the Reds' relentless ability to pressure mistakes told the tale. In the bottom of the ninth, the game was tied 3-3 when Griffey streaked toward first on a slow grounder. The hurried Yankee shortstop threw wide and Griffey cruised into second. From there he scored on Tony Perez's single. Perez has driven in at least 90 runs in each of the past ten seasons, yet he is the perennial subject of trade talk. This year Dan Driessen, 25, who was the Reds' designated hitter in the Series, is believed ready to replace...
...Thurman Munson showed his MVP fiber and capped a brillant series with four hits last night. Ken Griffey, a .330 hitter during the National League season, was laminated by Yankee breaking balls and finished up with but one safety in 16 trips. Fred Stanley proved himself a major league shortstop in front of one hundred million critics...