Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goose" Goslin was batting close to .414 for Washington. Sharp-nosed, sharp-chinned, sharp-eyed, amiable, fast, lazy, and a tireless autographer of balls, fond of track athletics and very poor at them, Goslin has proved himself for a long time a fine batter. Last spring he bet "Memphis Bill" Terry, Giant first baseman, $5 he could beat him sprinting, lost his five. A little later, with no money up, he tried to throw the discus, strained his arm. Unable to win games without...
...show for their trip except a new suit and a phrase, "When I was in the big leagues. . . ." But though Hornsby's beginning was a stencil his career from that time on was not. He played shortstop, then second base; he batted well. He made an enemy, Bill Hinchman, Pittsburgher, and came near fighting with him every time he saw him; he made many friends, some of them newspapermen who spread his name across their pages. In 1925 the Cardinals were doing badly; early in June Manager "Sunday School" Branch Rickey was ousted, Hornsby was made manager. Except that...
Team No. 29?Hercules Mary. Promitis, waitress, $30; Bill Bush, professional walker, no salary. Prize money...
...Wigfall, solemn and embarrassed, a good man if somewhat stupid, was grossly insulted by laughter throughout his reading of the service. Bernard Paul, aquiline, and Amelia Hallbach, spade-faced, were the participants in the wedding. The master of ceremonies, best man and judge of dancers was impudent Bill Robinson, "the finest tap-dancer in the world." He strutted and clowned continuously, while bowing to friends who called out his nickname?"Bojangles...
BLACKBIRDS OF 1928?Dark lightning in which Bill Robinson warms his heels (TIME...