Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rickey's career may be that husky, ham-handed Branch, who loves the game as much as the clicking of a Saturday-afternoon turnstile, was never a top man in baseball's ordinary occupations. In his 20s he broke into the majors as a catcher for the Cincinnati Reds, but he was no star-and besides, Pious Methodist Rickey refused to play on Sundays. He tried managing the St. Louis Browns, but he lacked the temperament to field-boss some of his hardbitten pros. He found himself, and became Innovator Rickey, when he put his college (Ohio Wesleyan...
Other scores: Cincinnati 3-1, Pittsburgh 2-3; New York (N) 5, Boston 1; Chicago (N) 3, St. Louis 2; Philadelphia (A) 5, Washington 3; Chicago (A) 4-6, St. Lou9is...
...Louis (Pollet) 7, Cincinnati 0 W L Pet. G.B. G.L. Philadelphia 90 62 .592 2 Brooklyn...
...Cincinnati (Fox) 7, St, Louis 2 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. G.L. New York 96 54 640 4 Detroit 92 57 617 3 1/2 5 Boston...
Pleased with the result, she spent $2.50 last spring to have a recording made. Then she took it to Cincinnati Disc Jockey (WCPO) Bill Dawes. Skeptical, Dawes listened to it. Said he afterward: "At first I thought it was just the mood I was in that made me like it, so in the middle of my show I said to my audience, 'Friends, here is a little song . . . called Our Lady of Fatima. I'm going to play it for you . . . and I'd like to know what you think...