Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March 31, 1949), and meanwhile exhibited, in diminishing numbers and for a small fee, at scattered U.S. museums. Needy German children would get the profits. Last week museum representatives converged on Washington to get their bids in. Result: from the Metropolitan, the paintings, will go to Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Toledo...
...time limit. If, by four years after leaving college, he hadn't made it, he would go into business. He made it in less than two. At 24, Boudreau became the youngest big-league manager in history.* Last week, after six seasons as playing boss of the Cleveland Indians, Shortstop Boudreau was still the youngest manager in the business. He was also managing the hottest team in both leagues...
...Opening Day, the odds against the Indians, who haven't won an American League pennant since 1920, were 20-1. But in sport-crazy Cleveland, a record 73,163 fans crowded Municipal Stadium to watch Rapid Robert Feller, the highest-paid player in baseball ($87,000), pitch the Indians to a two-hit, 4-0 victory over the Browns. The Indians went on to win six straight...
...again), but he still had the uncanny knack of outguessing the ball that made him the league's top shortstop last year. As a manager, Boudreau has been somewhat less phenomenal. Yet when President Bill Veeck tried to trade Boudreau off last season (the club finished fourth), Cleveland fans flooded Veeck with 10,000 letters demanding that Boudreau be kept. He was on a $50,000-a-year contract...
Philadelphia 8, Cleveland...