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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 369

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good arm, and mustbe able to figure out in advance the many playsthat start at first base. Most ball players regard either short-stop orsecond base as the hardest positions to fill. Manyseem to think second base the hardest, while per-haps just as many insist that short-stop is a triflethe more… … BOBBY WALLACE, FOR TWENTY YEARS A STARBIG-LEAGUE INFIELDER. rather think that short-stop is the most difficultposition to play, was his reply. Playing short-stop is no cinch, but I wouldrather look after short-stop than second base,is the way Jack Barry, famous short-stop of theAthletics, summed up…

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