Word: barney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doak Walker, Charlie Justice, Charlie Bednarik, and Barney Poole are some of the nationally known players who were put on the first team...
...Edward B. Smith (founder of the Edward B. Smith & Co. investment house, which later merged with Charles D. Barney & Co. to become Smith, Barney & Co.), Geoff Smith was born in the Kitten-house Square section, went to St. Paul's School and Harvard, where he was a member of the Porcellian Club, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He became a partner in the law firm of Barnes, Dechert Price, Smith & Clark, and joined the Navy in World War II, where he rose to captain and procurement director of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. His citation...
...Dodger bench, Eddie Miksis spread consternation among his superstitious teammates by blurting out the unmentionable: "Hey, they haven't got any hits." Out there on the mound, Rex Barney did not need to be told ("I always know when a guy comes up there what he's done the last time ... I remember the ones that have hit me, and there were none to remember...
...sixth, the rain started again. In the ninth, the ball was slippery, and Barney was pressing. With the count three-and-two, the first batter swung at a pitch up around his neck. The second Giant popped a mile-high fly to First Baseman Gil Hodges, who wiped the rain from his face and caught it. Then Whitey Lockman, who had hit three home runs off Barney earlier in the season, stepped up. He got a piece of the ball, but it fouled off near the Dodger dugout. Looking up into the lights, Catcher Bruce Edwards thought he was "seeing...
...Pitcher Barney leaped "20 feet" into the air, and took off for the clubhouse like a man possessed. He was; he had the National League's first no-hitter of 1948. Score...