Word: baseman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manager Charles John Grimm was for years the best fielding first baseman in the league. In July, there were rumors he might lose his job. In August he snapped his team out of a losing streak by forbidding them to play poker. For the past three weeks, he has been superstitiously driving a nail into the heel of his shoe before each game. A capable baritone, banjoist and bagatelle player, nephew of Director George P. Vierheller of the St Louis Zoo, Manager Grimm has worried himself from 195 to 175 lb. since April. Last week, his worries partly over...
...Warneke a lanky, hay-pitching, coon-hunting 26-year-old from Arkansas, is the right-handed ace of the pitching staff (Warneke, French, Root, Lee), which rotated with rhythmic brilliance through their winning streak. At the start of the season, Manager Grimm was the Cubs' regular first baseman. Nineteen-year-old Phil Cayarretta, one year out of a North Side Chicago high school, played the position so well that Manager Grimm let him keep it. He, Third-Baseman Stanley Hack, Outfielders Augie Galan and Frankie Demaree are playing their first season as regulars...
...softball became a craze, nobody knows. Promoters have at least been shrewd enough to profit from it. George Sisler, longtime first baseman for the St. Louis Browns, who now has a St. Louis sporting goods store, is head of the American Association, owns two softball parks in St. Louis, controls three others. Ordinary softball parks seat 4,000, cost $3,500 to build and, with 10? admissions attracting crowds from 1,000 to capacity, may pay for themselves in a month. Principal rival to the American Association is the National Association, run by a onetime baseballer and sportswriter named Philip...
...wished, Manager Cochrane could have supported his second contention with his first baseman, Henry Benjamin Greenberg, who is probably the outstanding player on the Tigers this year, certainly the leading homerun hitter in both leagues and the ablest Jew in baseball. A New Yorker who learned to bat with a broomstick in side-street one-o'-cat games, he was offered a job with the Yankees in 1930, shrewdly refused it because he foresaw small chance of replacing First Baseman Lou Gehrig. He quit New York University at the end of his first semester to join the Tigers...
Last month George Herman ("Babe") Ruth resigned from the Boston Braves, calling its owner, Judge Emil Fuchs, a "double-crosser" (TIME, June 10). Last week Judge Fuchs lost another player, Second Baseman Edward Moriarity who had just graduated from Holy Cross College. On its championship team he had been captain and second baseman, with a batting average of .486. In a week of play for the Braves, Moriarity batted .324, showed promise as a fielder. Then he abruptly resigned. Calling no names, Batter Moriarity announced he hoped to enter the Roman Catholic priesthood...