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...winter in the history of professional baseball has seen such change in personnel of major league rosters. Aside from the Cobb and Speaker hegiras: Rogers Hornsby, premier infielder and slugger, has left the St. Louis Cardinals to enter the costume of the New York Giants; Frankie Frisch, Fordham flash, will be a Cardinal instead of a Giant; veteran Eddie Collins will again strive for the Philadelphia Athletics after a lengthy interlude with the Chicago White Sox; Zack Wheat, another oldster, has joined the Athletics after years of service with the Brooklyn Robins; Eddie Roush has been traded by Cincinnati...
Dwight Filly Davis Jr., who received a "Louisville Slugger" ball bat autographed by Babe Ruth, because he was judged the best soldier-athlete at the Citizens Military Training Camp at Plattsburg...
Extra base hits continue scant among Coach Mitchell's charges. Only ten in all have been registered, six of them doubles, while the remaining four have been evenly divided between three baggers and home runs. Sullivan is the Crimson's leading slugger, his extra base plies totalling nine bases...
...same time that the University is facing the Purple, the 1928 nine will take on the Holy Cross Freshmen on the Freshman diamond. Captain Jones' nine seems fated to meet the strongest opposition it has had this year from the Holy Cross Freshmen. Filip, who is the leading slugger on a hard-hitting nine, collected three successive doubles in the game against Pomfret, which the Purple won, 15-7. O'Connell or Murphy will probably occupy the mound. Against them, Coach Davison has decided to start his regular line-up. Barbee is reported to have recovered entirely from his injury...
Howard has also come to the fore in the past few days after being kept out of the line-up for over a week on account of illness. He was the individual star of the 1927 infield and an effective hitter of the slugger type. His batting eye has developed slowly this spring, presumably because of his enforced vacation from practice, but his fielding has been of a high order. Coady has seemingly clinched the first base position. He did not play on his Freshman team last year on account of scholastic troubles, but he has already distanced his competitors...