Word: bobo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bobo Finds One. Every rawboned, greenhorn pitcher who straggled in from the bushes was being compared with Walter Johnson; every ham-handed hitter was a potential Babe Ruth. At Orlando, Fla., Old Pitcher "Bobo" Newsom got in on the talent hunt. He strolled into the Washington Senators' camp with a rookie named Rufe Leonard in tow. Said Bobo modestly: "I don't say he'll be the fastest left-handed pitcher in the American League, because I'm not quite sure he can throw harder than Newhouser. . . ." Last week, Rufe steamed his smoke ball past bewildered...
...Blow for Bobo. Early in the game Ruark had learned the nuisance value of heaving a rock at a greenhouse-if it was not too big a greenhouse. When he went to Washington, B.C. in 1936, he had a degree from the University of North Carolina, hitch in the merchant marine, and $4.25 in change. A copy boy's job gave him his toe hold on the Scripps-Howard Washington News. In a few months (and after ( few staff shakeups by Editor Lowell Mellett) the cocksure young Irishman was the paper's top sportswriter. One day he accused...
...Bobo Newsom was right. He was the Dodgers' best pitcher. But the Old Showboat's arrogance got Manager Leo ("Lippy") Durocher's goat. When it came to a showdown last week-after Bobo's suspension for insubordination had caused a brief "sympathy strike" among his teammates-Dodger Boss Branch Rickey upheld Durocher. Newsom, only three years ago reputed to be baseball's highest-paid pitcher, was waived out of the National League, traded to the St. Louis Browns...
Many a baseball fan agreed that Newsom had been a sacrificial goat. But those who took a second look at last week's baseball standings were likely to view old Bobo's exile as a kick, not down the river, but upstairs. While the mutinous Dodgers apparently weakened their chances of dethroning the World Champion Cardinals in the National League pennant race, the Browns were one of four American League clubs still jockeying for position behind the pace-setting Yankees...
Result of his first attempt as a 1942 Dodger: Cincinnati Reds, 0; Newsom, 2 -a four-hit whitewash which sounded to Owner MacPhail like Series money already in the cash register. But four days later, Bobo was terrible again-the Boston Braves knocked him out of the box in the sixth...