Word: babes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week. In his first year as manager of the Detroit Tigers, he kept the team unexpectedly in second place for some six weeks. Last week, in a crucial series against the New York Yankees, Detroit won the first game and moved into first place. Next day, when Babe Ruth hit his 700th home run, the Yankees beat Detroit 4-to-2, regained first place. Detroit won the next two games, emerged from the series with a comfortable 17 game lead...
...only satisfaction that the season has given Philadelphia's old Connie Mack is that his 27-year-old outfielder, Bob Johnson, with 24 home-runs was last week leading both leagues. Jimmy Foxx, who totaled 58 homeruns in 1932, was three behind Johnson. Babe Ruth last week hit the 698th homerun of his career (excluding World Series and exhibition games), with three men on base, in a game against the White Sox, bringing his total to 12 for this year, 14 behind his record year (1927). Lou Gehrig of the Yankees, who was expected to be leading homerun hitter...
...baseball critics, many of the selections on the all-star teams seemed dubious. Obviously Babe Ruth, who at 40 is probably in his last big-league year, would play outfield; he got 114,999 votes. Nonetheless, on the basis of field performance this year either Ben Chapman (Yankees), who got only 19,076, or Heinie Manush (Senators), who got 82,410, was more deserving. Big league managers are not wholeheartedly in favor of an all-star game. They feel that it tires their best players, gives the two special managers an unfair advantage because they may get a chance...
...carbohydrates. Williamson Candy's Oh Henry! (a core of fudge covered with soft caramel, rolled in loose peanuts and dipped in chocolate), was named for a neighborhood handy man, became a best-seller in 1920. Curtiss Candy Co.'s (Chicago) Baby Ruth pays no royalties to Babe Ruth because it was named ostensibly for the late President Cleveland's daughter "Baby Ruth,'' who died of diphtheria in 1904 at the age of 12. Curtiss launched 100 new bars, of which 87 were quick failures, twelve nine-day wonders, and the 100th Baby Ruth. Candy bars...
Easy-going Belgian politicians took the day off, gave the Royal House a breathing spell. Gay parties in the brighter cafes celebrated the birth. As a popular gesture the babe was hastily and privately named after Belgium's late, great Albert. As a move to appease the Walloons, Babe Albert was further tagged with the name of a hotbed of Walloons, became "Prince Albert of Liege." Next month he will be publicly and formally christened with the names he received last week in private: Albert Umberto Felix Theodore Chretien Eugene Marie...