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Word: baseballmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...which Sherman lost 2,500 men, a Union Army surgeon who lost a leg there named his next son Kenesaw Mountain Landis. "Thus," observed Biographer Henry F. Pringle, "was the blunder of General Sherman immortalized." Last week frosty old Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis saw a wish fulfilled. Baseballmen meeting in Atlanta fed him fried chicken, then stuffed him in a car, drove to Marietta, Ga., where the City Council presented him with "a little farm where I can look out and see Kennesaw Mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 16, 1940 | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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