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...Second-place Detroit Tigers: a baseball game against the Washington Senators, 12-to-3 ; in which Rookie Rudy York, who got a chance when Catcher Mickey Cochrane was injured in midseason, hit his 17th and 18th homeruns of the month (August), to become the first batter to break famed Babe Ruth's record of 17 in one month (September 1927); at Detroit...
...first time in three years the Varsity football team will start the season without two strikes already upon it and the third, a high hard one coming while the batter is still off balance. That may be mixing sports and figures of speech but it's literally true, and this is the season when sports are being mixed anyway...
...week in Chicago, spectacled Pitcher Bill Dietrich of the Chicago White Sox, who was barely good enough to make the team last year, pitched the first one in the major leagues since August 31, 1935. Rarest and most satisfying kind of no-hit game is one in which no batter reaches first base, of which there are six on record in the major leagues. In Pitcher Dietrich's no-hit game, which the White Sox won, 8-to-0, three members of the St. Louis Browns reached first base-two on walks, one on an infield error...
...third win in four starts during the past two weeks, Curtiss held the opposing batters to four scratch hits for a single run in the first eight frames. Tiring in the ninth, the sopohomore right-hander gave way to Ed Ingalls, after allowing four base knocks and three tallies. Ingalls forced the Tufts batter to ground out to the pitcher's box retiring the side...
...bean ball" is a ball pitched at a batter's head. First noteworthy bean ball of 1937 was thrown accidentally by Cleveland's famed Young Bob Feller at Henry Leiber of the New York Giants. Next noteworthy bean balls were thrown purposely by famed Pitcher Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals at members of the New York Giants in St. Louis last fortnight to express his indignation over an umpire's decision. The Dean bean balls resulted in a free-for-all fist light on the field, fines of $50 each for Pitcher Dean...