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...Emil Ludwig, Robinson Jeffers, Ben ; Hecht, Hendrik Van Loon. Died. Michael Joseph ("Turkey Mike") Donlin, 57, actor, oldtime baseballer; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. He was the strutting, clowning, umpire-baiting captain of the New York Giants team which, with Christy Mathewson, "Iron Man Joe" McGinnity and Roger Bresnahan shut out Philadelphia four times in the 1905 World Series...
...Toledo Roger Bresnahan, oldtime (1902-15) National League baseballer, onetime owner of the Toledo "Mud Hens," rated by John McGraw as all-time greatest major league catcher, took a $100-a-month position as guard at Toledo's workhouse...
Twenty-five years ago-on July 19, 1902, to be exact-nine men representing New York City and being called the "Giants" were playing baseball against Philadelphia. Most of them had sonorous Irish names-Brodie, Bresnahan, McGinnity, McGann, McGraw. They lost the game, 5 to 3. But the crowd of some 10,000 was not entirely displeased. The new manager and shortstop* of the Giants, John Joseph McGraw, seemed to be a fighter and a leader who knew the difference between first base and home plate. New Yorkers predicted that he would get the Giants out of the "cellar" (last...
Married. Roger Bresnahan, 45, onetime baseball catcher, onetime manager of the St. Louis "Cardinals," the Toledo "Mudhens," to Miss Gertrude Norenberg, 41, Toledo society belle; in Westmoreland, Toledo suburb...
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