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Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball or softball fielding position between second and third base, which is considered to be among the most demanding defensive positions. Historically, the position was assigned to defensive specialists who were typically poor at batting and were often placed at the bottom of the batting order .
Willie James Wells (August 10, 1906 [1] – January 22, 1989), nicknamed "the Devil", was an American baseball player.He was a shortstop who played from 1924 to 1948 for various teams in the Negro leagues and in Latin America.
Alan Stuart Trammell (/ ˈ t r æ m ɛ l / TRAM-el; [1] born February 21, 1958) is an American former professional baseball shortstop, manager and coach and member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a player.
John Henry Lloyd (April 25, 1884 – March 19, 1964), [b] nicknamed "Pop" and "El Cuchara", was an American baseball shortstop and manager in the Negro leagues.During his 27-year career, he played for many teams and had a .343 batting average.
Omar Vizquel, the all-time leader in games played as a shortstop. Games played (most often abbreviated as G or GP) is a statistic used in team sports to indicate the total number of games in which a player has participated (in any capacity); the statistic is generally applied irrespective of whatever portion of the game is contested.
Philip Francis Rizzuto (September 25, 1917 – August 13, 2007), nicknamed "the Scooter", was an American Major League Baseball shortstop.He spent his entire 13-year baseball career with the New York Yankees (1941–1956), and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994.
Lucius Benjamin Appling (April 2, 1907 – January 3, 1991), nicknamed "Old Aches and Pains", was an American professional baseball shortstop who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox (1930–1950). He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1964. Born in North Carolina, Appling briefly attended Oglethorpe ...
In his first off-season, he acquired shortstop Vern Stephens and pitchers Ellis Kinder and Jack Kramer from the St. Louis Browns; all played major roles for the 1948 Red Sox, who finished the season tied for first place with the Cleveland Indians but lost a tie-breaking playoff game against the Indians for the AL pennant. Kinder and Stephens ...