Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White Sox), Herb Pennock, Chief Bender, Rube Waiberg, Howard Ehmke. Then he quietly thanked them all, made a short speech and rode back to his Germantown home to rest for three hours after the excitement. Connie Mack has been in poor health since he was injured by a batted ball during spring training in Mexico last year. During the last six weeks of the season, when he was afflicted with an old gall bladder ailment, his familiar figure, dressed in street clothes, wearing a pre-War high hard collar, brandishing a score card, was absent from the Athletics' dugout...
...oldest manager in big-league baseball has won more championships, trained more managers than any other man alive. He started baseball in 1883 as a mittless catcher in the Central Massachusetts League-when catchers caught the ball on first bounce. Three years later he made his major-league debut as a catcher for Washington and in 1894 he landed his first managerial job-with the Pittsburgh Pirates. But it was with Milwaukee (1897-1900) that Connie Mack's metamorphosis from a catcher to a manager was really made. At the end of the 1900 season (the year the American...
Benjamin F. Shibe. a manufacturer of baseball equipment, to build a ball park and buy a ball team. The Athletics, with Mack as manager, played their first game in 1901, won their first pennant in 1902, their second in 1905. But Manager Mack's first great team - with the famed "$100,-ooo infield" of Frank Baker. Jack Barry, Eddie Collins, Stuffy Mclnnis-was not assembled until 1910. In five years they breezed through four American League pennants, three world championships. In 1914 Philip Ball, late owner of the St. Louis Browns, Oilman Harry F. Sinclair and the Ward Baking...
Unfortunately, the McKinsey crystal ball had predicted a small cotton crop this year. When it turned out to be immense, the Marshall Field manufacturing division took a whale of a loss on its huge cotton orders. What was worse, Mr. McKinsey, for all his theoretical skill, foresaw no business depression ahead and the manufacturing division kept on turning out goods at top speed all last spring. When excess inventory caught up with the Fieldcrest mills, they were definitely hard hit. The manufacturing division is now contracting like a scared shellfish...
...ball to benefit the South Central (Negro) district of Chicago's United Charities fortnight hence, 5,000 whites & blacks will gather to hear Negress Ethel...