Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia to further his own ambitions for an "independent," German-dominated Ukraine. A Romanov trek back to St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) is probably outside the realm of possibility, but a substitute throne at Kiev, capital of the Soviet Ukraine, might well be "Tsar" Vladimir's if he plays ball with Führer Hitler, and if Nazi plans work on schedule...
American League bigwigs, following in the four-year-old tracks of the National League, granted the Cleveland and Philadelphia clubs permission to play seven home games apiece under lights next year.* Both leagues compromised on a uniform ball for 1939: an American League (thinner) covering with National League (five strands instead of four) stitching-the one extra strand supposedly giving the pitcher a better grip on the ball...
...Hutch," a 200-lb., 6 ft. 2 in. righthander, the sensation of the West Coast last summer, had major-league scouts tripping over one another in the Rainiers' ball park. When he finished the season with 25 games won, seven lost, 145 strikeouts, an earned-run average of 2.48 and a batting average of .313, Owner Emil Sick of the Seattle club put a $100,000 price tag on this rookie pitcher, fresh from high school. Although no club owner was willing to pay that amount in cash, the Tigers -outbidding the rich Yankees, Red Sox, Pirates and Cubs...
Witness Hedges gave him a good look at the button. But he did not explain that it is the badge of the 8-Ball Club, organized years ago "by a group of the dog-house boys for their mutual protection against the pitfalls in life." Members include NBC-RCA engineers, salesmen, sales managers-people who consider themselves most frequently behind the 8-ball...
...untried Freshmen will meet Lynn Y.M.C.A, at 7:30 o'clock. Sprinters Stearns, Turner, Jay, Price, Brehmer and Ball; distance men Rowe, Downing, Emmett, Phinisy, and Schoonmaker; back strokers Johnson, Harris, and Mathis; breastrokers Girton, Wood and eberle, and divers Nichols, Skarples, and Thurlow are the men most likely to ses service. George Girton is the man to watch.EX-CAPTAIN CHARLIE HUTTER Alumnl Here Tonight...