Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entire career the A. F. of L. president's franchise as a labor leader has been a union card that he holds in the Coshocton (Ohio) local of John Lewis' United Mine Workers. After splitting with C. I. O. the A. F. of L. started to play ball with a rival union, Progressive Miners of America, and John Lewis threatened to kick Miner Green out of the United Mine Workers for "treason." Since Mr. Green's home town local, whose financial secretary is Mr. Green's brother, would probably stand by him, Mr. Lewis proposed...
...death, that a research committee definitely established Cooperstown as the birthplace of baseball. Civic-proud Cooperstownians, whose pastoral background had already been immortalized as the home town and nameplace† of James Fenimore Cooper, bought the original baseball field, spent $25,000 to transform it into a modern ball park and public playground, named it Doubleday field. Three years ago, in anticipation of the 100th birthday of the game, baseball bigwigs and benefactors joined hands to make Cooperstown a bigger, better shrine. To preserve its treasures, baseball sentimentalists decided to build an imposing three-story colonial brick museum. To immortalize...
...years of major-league play, his National League record of 373 victories in 696 games, his 90 shutouts, 16 in one season (an all-time record), his 28 victories in his first year of big-league baseball (1911). But last week "Old Pete" was managing a hotel ball team called the Springfield Empires-a station he had reached via the characteristic twilight trail from major-league to minor-league to semi-pro baseball, including an interval of barnstorming with the bearded House of David troupe...
...most guests Author Marlowe shows astonishing tolerance. (After a charity ball in London, which kept him on his feet 19 hours at a halfpenny an hour, he could still spare a sympathetic thought for the hangovers in store for the revelers.) Main bane of waiters, says Marlowe, is tipping. On this practice he lays most of the blame for the miserable working conditions of the profession generally. Do waiters judge a man's character by the size of his tip? Says Waiter Marlowe: They...
Meeting in Chicago last spring the rulemakers, still dissatisfied, gave basketball the most drastic alteration in its 46-year history. It removed the after-goal centre jump, distinctive maneuver of the game. This year, under the new rule, the ball, instead of being brought to the centre and tossed up after each goal, is automatically given to the team just scored on-for a throw-in from out of bounds just under the basket. This speeds up the game, adds about seven minutes of playing time, reduces the advantages of tall fellows over short ones, results in more spectacular tries...