Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bitter afternoon for the New York Giants' Leo ("The Lip") Durocher. His old ball club, the Brooklyn Dodgers, was spraying Giant pitches into the far reaches of the Polo Grounds. Each time Durocher crossed to his third-base coaching box, visiting Brooklyn fans yowled and booed...
...Elsie Kowalsky could hardly believe her ears. She took another look at the hole in the chimney on the third floor of the dirty-yellow brick building at IO2A Nassau Avenue, in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. Then she called again. A man's voice answered her from somewhere below. She cried: "Why don't you come out?" The reply came hollowly: "I want to stay...
...Little Time. Almost from his birth in Brooklyn, Feb. 18, 1898, Hadden's career as an editorial prodigy progressed, according to Busch, "with the speed and directness of an arrow." As a moppet he entertained his family with such epic poems as The Mouse's Party, which ran to 142 stanzas because its author was out to outdo The Ancient Mariner. At Brooklyn's Polytechnic Prep, he put out a handwritten gossip sheet called The Daily Glonk. But he did not really want to be an editor; he yearned to be another Ty Cobb. Though an inept...
...Cooperstown, N. Y. AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston 10 (Johnson), St. Louis 6 Pittsburgh 3 (Chambers), Boston 3 Boston 4(Hughson), St. Louis 3 Pittsburgh 11 (Carey), Boston 3 New York 12 (Byrne), Detroit 0 New York 10 (Jansen), Chicago 1 Washington 7 (Searb'r'ugh), Cleveland 3 Brooklyn 3 (Minner), St. Louis 7 Washington 2 (Hudson), Cleveland 0 Cincinnati 14 (Ruffensberger), Philadelphia 3 (McCahan), Chicago 2 Philadelphia 7 Chicago 11 (Gumpert), Philadelphia 3 Philadelphia 8 (Roberts), Cineinnati...
Chicago (Schmitz) 4, Brooklyn...