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Frisch broke in with the New York Giants in 1919, fresh off the campus. A star at Fordham-he had captained the football, basketball and baseball teams-he sat on the bench only two months, then moved into the starting lineup when the regular second baseman hurt his leg. For the next 18 seasons, Frisch remained a regular, matching superb fielding with a lifetime batting average of .316. From 1921 through 1924, the Giants won four straight National League pennants, and Frisch starred in all four campaigns...
Raffish. Miles' appearance was a star turn. Alternately sobbing and indignant, she seemed to transfix the courtroom spectators and the seven-person jury. Justice of the Peace Mulford Winsor IV, a plumber when he is not sitting on the bench, was so unnerved that he had to start the oath twice...
...next year Imlach drafted Martin, who proceeded to break Perreault's record with 44 goals in his freshman season. Then, in a crafty trade late last season, Imlach rescued Robert from the Pittsburgh Penguins' bench. After experimenting with a half-dozen possibilities, Sabres' Coach Joe Crozier matched Robert with Perreault and Martin, and the French Connection clicked...
...Destiny) had rarely run more smoothly. In northeast Dublin, its workers delivered scores of voters to polling places in a shuttle of buses. In the Rialto district, they assembled strange processions of the elderly and infirm who looked as if they could scarcely make it to the nearest park bench, much less to the ballot box. There was even a Spanish nun, a fervent supporter of Prime Minister Jack Lynch, who appeared at one Dublin polling place to vote for the local Fianna Fáil candidate. But she was challenged and told she could not vote. "All right...
...pipe with a letter opener.) What's that? Oh, I see ... (Harris filled his pipe with tobacco, lit it, and leaned back again.)... What you want is treasurer. There's no money in it, but look at the last four treasurers. It looks like a good path to the bench ... Yeah ... Well, think about it, and we'll discuss it later ... Right. Bye." Harris hung up and sighed. "Everyone wants jobs," he said...