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...blood relative of Manager Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, but sharing his ideas, caused the first outbreak of hysteria by slamming a home run into the arms of the band behind a temporary fence in right field. Aged Roger Peckinpaugh (discarded by the Yankees as too gouty) came up to bat in the fifth inning, hit one of Pitcher Meadows' (Pittsburgh) offerings, filled bases which already contained Harris and Bluege. Up came Rice. Oof! Strike one. . . . Sugg! Strike two. . . .Pitcher Meadows smiled, wound up to pitch strike three; Rice swung, fans shrieked seeing the ball streak far enough from the plate...
...delayed for a day by rain, harassed when it finally began by wind and cold, which chilled President Coolidge and pinched his face. After half a dozen innings of erratic baseball, Manager Harris called his pitcher, Alex Ferguson, out of the game and sent in midget Nemo Leibold to bat for him. Nemo, a lefthander, shuffled and glared until Pitcher Kremer ( Pittsburgh) walked him. Poker-faced Goose Goslin stepped to the plate, swung high, swung low, like a man who would hit at anything. Pittsburgh outfielders spread out. Canny Goslin bunted. Traynor hit a sacrifice fly. J. Harris, the lines...
Plymouth--"The Gorilla" at 8.20. The irregular offspring of "The Bat", "The Cat and the Canary...
...declined $500,000 due him as payment for their services. Grateful, Britannia showered the aged potentate of nearly three score and ten with decorations. Touched and admiring, British citizens hailed him as an ardent cricketer, who, when he could no longer bowl, field or run, continued to bat and had someone...
...players of the Chicago "Black Sox" were found with big wads of money under their pillows which a gambler had paid them to "throw" the World's Series. The gambler is now a respected Realtor, but those players ? athletes, as fast and heady as ever spit on a bat ? were ousted from organized baseball. One of them was Buck Weaver, a third-baseman; another" was first-bagger Chick Gandil. They stepped behind the curtain that hid Hal Chase, perhaps the most graceful ballplayer that ever lived, who had also left baseball with a cloud on his name...