Word: club
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason for the club's success was the inspired playing of a graceful, young (24) rookie second baseman named Jerry Coleman. An ex-Marine pilot who flew 57 strikes in the South Pacific, modest Jerry Coleman hit a modest .251 with Newark last year. During the winter to build himself up, he swung an overweighted bat in the cellar of his San Francisco home, faithfully executed 25 pushups morning & night. At week's end, Coleman had hit safely in seven consecutive games, had a fat .400 average. That was not as good as Rookie Johnny Groth...
...bitter afternoon for the New York Giants' Leo ("The Lip") Durocher. His old ball club, the Brooklyn Dodgers, was spraying Giant pitches into the far reaches of the Polo Grounds. Each time Durocher crossed to his third-base coaching box, visiting Brooklyn fans yowled and booed...
...past crimes and misdemeanors; another brawl would be strike three and out. In 1947, Chandler had suspended Durocher for the season for "conduct detrimental to baseball." Twice recently he had disciplined Lippy for minor offenses: for hiring Coach Fred Fitzsimmons when Fred's old club wasn't looking, and for a pre-season row with an umpire...
...position in the mystery field is towering in the face of the fact that the average detective story in the U.S. sells a mere 3,000 in the original trade edition and nets its author about $800. A story fortunate enough to be picked as a Crime Club semimonthly selection may sell about 10,000 copies, while Gardner's trade-edition average over the past five years has been 24,000. But position with whodunit fans is only half the story. Author Gardner is not only the most popular practitioner, he is also the most prolific. In the past...
Ruth Kennedy '50 will head the Radcliffe Catholic Club next year, outgoing president Anita Palmer '49 announced yesterday...