Word: catchers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favor of the New York Yankees, playing an exhibition game against the Boston Braves. In the eighth inning, Boston's famed Shortstop Rabbit Maranville, who in the fifth inning had hit his first homerun in two years, was on third base, with two out. New York's Catcher Kies threw to second, to catch a base-stealer. Maranville started for home. Instead of sliding face first, as usual, Maranville tried to run across the plate. As he reached in to touch it, his shin cracked against Rookie Kies's leg-guard. Maranville turned a somersault, landed with...
Chauncey has been dormitory coach since 1929 and previously coached football and baseball at the William Penn Charter school. While an undergraduate, Chauncey was catcher on the varsity baseball team, and dropkicking star for the football eleven...
...needed for spring training. Old Connie Mack had to do again what he had done in 1914-break up his team. With tears in his eyes he reeled off as fast as he could the names of the players he was selling. Out went Pitcher "Lefty" Grove and Catcher "Mickey" Cochrane. Out went Pitchers "Rube"' Walberg & George Earnshaw and Second Baseman Max Bishop. In came three new players and $295,000 in cash. Then Manager Mack strode from the room, took refuge in the suite of Tom Yawkey who had paid him $160,000 for Grove, Walberg and Bishop...
...enthusiastic baseball town, Sportsman Yawkey set out to rebuild the team. Including last week's deals he spent $405,000 for new players. Also he replaced Marty McManus with Bucky Harris as manager. Result: dopesters conceded Boston a good chance to finish high next year. Philadelphia's Catcher Cochrane went to the Detroit Tigers (where he was made manager) for $100.000 in cash and Catcher John Pasek in trade. Then Pasek, with Pitcher Earnshaw, was swapped to the Chicago White Sox for $35,000 in cash and Catcher Charles Berry in trade. The baseball meeting in Chicago also...
Utilizing radiant energy from the sun is a dream that has harried many an experimenter. The sunshine falling in eight hours on a square mile in the tropics is equivalent to the energy stored in 7,400 tons of coal. The difficulty is to devise a sunshine catcher which is not expensive out of all proportion to the power produced. This is the defect of the commonest solar machines which have appeared so far-huge concave reflectors which focus on a boiler, make steam to drive small engines. One of the most optimistic U. S. experimenters, Dr. Charles Greeley Abbott...