Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, for the sixth time in his eleven seasons with the Yankees, the big guy would be out of the line-up on opening day. But this time it was no mere strained tendon. As far as baseball was concerned, Joe DiMaggio, one of the greatest outfielders and money hitters in history, was in critical condition...
...when the pressure of big-time golf began to keep Byron Nelson from sleeping nights, he quit the tournament circuit. Nelson worked on his 730-acre Texas ranch, drove a tractor, played a little exhibition golf during the summer. But he came out each year for the Masters, exposing himself to the rigors of tournament competition...
...face missing was Ben Hogan's, and that wasn't Ben's fault. He won $3,823 in four tournaments before his near-fatal auto accident in February, and is still seventh on this year's list of money winners. As in big league baseball, the flow of young talent had been pinched off by World War II and was just beginning to be seasoned enough to make itself felt...
...champion of the Chickasaw Golf Club. At the age of twelve young Cary fired a 77 one day to beat the old man. Like father, he studied to be a dentist, practiced in the Army and with his father after getting his discharge. He played now & then on the big-time golf circuit as an amateur while debating whether to be a full-time golfer or full-time dentist. In 1947, after he married Edith Buck, an airline stewardess, he decided in favor of golf and turned...
...round cost him first place by one stroke, but the $900 he picked up boosted his earnings for the year to $9,384 and moved him ahead of Sam Snead in 1949's money race. Says Middlecoff, who admits along with other pros that big-time golf is a tough way to make a living: "I wouldn't do it if I didn't like it. You know, I don't have...