Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after he had led the Tigers to two successive American League pennants and the first world championship in its history, Catcher-Manager Mickey Cochrane became the hero of Detroit. In 1936, Manager Cochrane had a nervous breakdown, was away from the bench for six weeks. Last summer a pitched ball fractured his skull, ended his playing career. Last week, Mickey Cochrane, 35, reputedly the highest-salaried ($45,000 a year) manager in the game, was fired...
...victim of "baseball," said President Walter O. Briggs (automobile bodies) who became sole owner of the club three years ago, spent $1,000,000 to enlarge the ball park, changed its name from Navin Field to Briggs Stadium. When the Tigers, who had finished second in 1936 and 1937, were still in fifth place last week, it was too much for Owner Briggs...
...blow over. Accordingly, the governors voted for such a committee, gave Gay the right to appoint it. But Gay had seen the light. Viewing the crash (by then the Dow-Jones average had dropped to 113), the depression and Douglas' determination, Gay decided it was time to play ball. To the fury of the Old Guard, he appointed a genuinely liberal committee headed by a non-Exchange member, Carle Cotter Conway, dynamic chairman of Continental Can. Among the liberals on the Conway Committee was William McChesney Martin...
...16th knockout in a row for young Hostak, who has lost only one of his 59 professional fights. ¶The minor-league Albany Senators: an exhibition game (at night) against the major-league Brooklyn Dodgers, 7-to-6; during which 44-year-old Dodger Babe Ruth smacked a ball over the right-field fence for his first homerun in three years; before a record-breaking crowd of 11,724 who had stormed the ball park to see him do just that; at Hawkins Stadium, Albany. For his accomplishment, 240-lb. Babe Ruth, like every baseballer who gets a homer...
...design one house a year-this year a Georgian one. Senior of six brothers, four of whom he put through college, two of whom work in the Kahn firm, Albert is both spark plug and patriarch. He belongs to six golf clubs, has never so much as addressed a ball. Like his brothers, he still prefers a nap on the drafting table to a night...