Word: blondest
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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Popular Pitcher. Thinnest, blondest member of Manager Joe McCarthy's Yankees, Vernon Gomez has succeeded in his profession largely by accident. His father, Francisco Gomez, was a rancher and rodeo performer who settled in Rodeo, Calif. There Vernon was born in 1910. At 13, Vernon Gomez hoped to be a rodeo performer also. He fell off a horse and broke his right arm, took to throwing baseballs with his left. The next spring while a freshman at Richmond High School, he became so expert that a Pacific Coast League team offered him a contract. A member of his high...