Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uncle Branch Rickey, the pious deacon of Montague Street, Brooklyn, concluded the first of his autumn deals Saturday with Lou Perini. This bargain sent minor league outfielders Sam Jethroe and Bob Addis to the Braves in return for six unannounced players in the Boston chain and a bale of cash (total also unannounced). We may he sure that Rickey did not got the worst of the deal, but for a change the other party, in this case Perini, did not get hopelessly chisled. We may also be sure that the total of the each in question surpassed...
...another thing, Rickey needs outfielders and especially centerfielders like he needs a hole in the head. The present occupant of Brooklyn's center pasture, Duke Snider, is a brilliant judge of fly balls, has a great throwing arm, hit 22 home runs in his rookle year with the Flock, and batted in the neighborhood of 291. To top it off, he is 22 years old. The whole Brooklyn organization is crawling with bright young flychasers, and the loss of Jethroe will not pain the Dodgers. Whether his addition to the Braves will rebound against the Brooks next season will...
...chief buccaneer of the Pirates was too busy trying to hit home run No. 53 (which he got against the Cincinnati Reds) to worry about romance. He was also scrambling to protect the runs-batted-in lead (125 so far) that he took last week from Brooklyn's Jackie Robinson...
...health authorities argued that children were safer in school than out because carefully regulated schedules would protect them from overexertion. Besides, it is easier to get them to bed earlier with the warning of "school tomorrow." But in the lower grades there were many empty seats. Said a Brooklyn principal: "Parents are dreadfully scared...
...year-old New York University sophomore, Brooklyn-born Wald landed a job as radio columnist for the old New York Graphic on the strength of sample columns written with the help of a CBS office boy. A free-lance fan magazine piece about the late Crooner Russ Colombo won him a Warners' writer contract when he was 20, and his career began in earnest. As a producer, after nine years of scripting, he quickly displayed a knack for grabbing story ideas out of the headlines (Action in the North Atlantic, Destination Tokyo), and for hastily getting aboard profitable trends...