Barnard School for Boys - Bric Yearbook (Fieldston, NY)

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5056401 The opening day oT baseball pracTice This spring saw only Tour leTTer men reTurn To bear The Purple and WhiTe. With Those veTerans and six members of lasT year's J.V., Coach Connor proceeded To mold a Team worThy of Barnard TradiTion. Big MarTy Cunningham was imme- diaTely insfalled aT TirsT base, where he has reigned supreme Tor The pasT Three years wiTh his big baT and superb Tielding. AT The key- sTone sack was Herb Thal, whose baseclearing double in The Columbia Grammar game will long be remembered. AT shorTsTop, Howie Seelig emerged TriumphanT on The sTrengTh oT a power- Tul Throwing arm. Third base, The iinx spoT of The Team, has changed hands many Times. A bad cold Took Gary Recker from The Team iusT as he had come inTo his own as a hiTTer and Tielder. FaTe Then dealT a cruel blow as Howie Frankel, Then Top Barnard slugger and Tielder, was sidelined Tor The season wiTh a badly sprained ankle. The Third base job Then Tell inTo The capable hands oT Sandy Diamond, whose good hiTTing and sensaTional Tielding came To a climax in The FieldsTon game, where he made sparkling plays on Two diTTerenT occasions. The laTesT evenT in ThaT Third base iinx is ThaT Sandy iniured his ankle aTTer leading oTT wiTh a single in The Scarsdale game. He was replaced by Doug Trower, Tormer relieT piTcher and uTiliTy inTielder. Doug was deTermined To make good and proceeded To show up admirably under The new load placed upon his very capable shoulders. The caTching chore Tell To anoTher J.V., John Gibson, who proceeded To come Through boTh aT and behind The plaTe as he pounded The ball Tor an average well over .300. John was backed up by Ronnie Rosen, who was hampered all season wiTh an ailing arm-buT whose geT-up- and-go made him a valuable Team asseT. The Barnard mound corps consisTed of Bill Bruce and Paul Armel, whose piTching and naTural abiliTy plagued enemv baTTers ThrouqhouT The season. The ouTTield seemed To be a closed corporaTion lYonkers boys onlyl. ln righT was Mark WhiTe, whose good Tielding and long blasT To righT Tield provided Barnard wiTh much needed power. Mark was also a dar- ing base-runner. CenTer Tield was held down by anoTher veTeran, Don Flinn. Don, besides being The baTTing champion, was also a sTellar Tielder whose long running caTches and whip- like arm wrecked havoc wiTh opposing baT- Ting averages. The leTT Tielder was Jim WhiTe. also a Three year veTeran. Jim. who has played every posiTion. in his career aT Barnard, used his skill and experience both aT The plaTe and in The Tield, To good advanTage. His long base- clearing double in The McBurney game will also be remembered. Backing up This Trio oT Tielders were Bob Aborn, Tom O'Brien, Herb WilTsek, and Duke STern, who provided excellenT supporT in numerous games, and proved a crediT To The school. Jack Oppenheim, an up and coming young piTcher, was developed This year. WaTch him nexT season! Good luck To Vic and nexT year's Team. and may They live up To The sTandards seT in l948.

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