Word: cavarretta
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...event each year (two from each major league, to insure impartiality). The team was the Cubs. In the sixth inning of the third game, played in Chicago, Umpire Moriarty, who functions in the American League during the regular season, called the National League Cubs' First Baseman Phil Cavarretta out in a close play at second base. When the Cubs protested. Umpire Moriarty retaliated by roundly abusing the whole team, ordering Manager Charles Grimm off the field. After the game Manager Grimm made the remark that came closest to being the 1935 World Series classic: "If a manager...