Word: baseman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of his underlings for his baseball knowledge and ability, his scrupulous fairness, Hornsby has never made any effort to endear himself to his employers. President Sam Breadon of the St. Louis Cardinals said that he would rather fight Jack Dempsey than have an argument with Hornsby. First Baseman Charley Grimm was appointed to replace Manager Hornsby whose $8,000 a month contract expires...
...tracts of the 17,000-acre ranch to a colony of Italian farmers. The show, they said, would be sent back on the road as "a Capone attraction" with Col. Miller as manager. . . . In Federal Penitentiary, Atlanta, Convict Capone has organized his own baseball team, is captain and first baseman...
Sirs: TIME, clear, curt, hardly complete, failed to mention possibly the most dramatic struggle in the life of John J. McGraw (TIME, June 13)- his battle against a nickname. Young and irascible Third Baseman McGraw was known as "Muggsy" in Baltimore, gloried in the name. As he grew older, fatter, the name seemed undignified. No longer a head-puncher, save in sundry clubs where he was reputed to have lost more fights than an English heavyweight, John McGraw objected to rowdy publicity, fought strenuously for years and finally had the offensive appellation discarded first by the New York and then...
Tall, calm, competent, Manager Terry has been the Giants' first baseman since 1925. One of the best hitters in the League, he led it with an average of .401 in 1930, barely missed doing it again last year. Now only 33, he had been a professional ballplayer for six years and was planning to retire when McGraw discovered him in 1921. He played for Toledo in 1922, managed the team for part of the season of 1923. Last winter, when his reputed $23,000 salary was cut 40%, First Baseman Terry again threatened to retire. Manager McGraw called...
...York Yankees: a ball game against the Philadelphia Athletics, at Philadelphia, 20 to 13, in which First Baseman Lou Gehrig of the Yankees tied the major league record by hitting four home runs? while his team broke the modern major league record (46) by hitting for a total of 50 bases...