Word: cobb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...season prognosticators, whose predictions are generally soon forgotten by all but themselves, have been especially active this spring. During no previous winter have rosters of the big teams undergone such sweeping changes in personnel. Tyrus Raymond Cobb, fiery outfielder, has joined the Philadelphia American League club, after 22 consecutive years in a Detroit uniform; Edward Trowbridge Collins, ancient, honorable second baseman, has returned to the same Philadelphia club, after an interlude of twelve years with the Chicago Americans; Rogers Hornsby, slugger, manager of 1926 World's Champion St. Louis Nationals, has gone to the New York Nationals in trade...
...Knock it out of the lot, Eddie!" Cobb may have sneered. "That guy in the box is wholly worthless when considered from a pitching stand-point!" Umpire Wilson halted the game; approached the offending athlete with firm tread and livid countenance; ordered him off the premises. Cobb made leisurely preparations to comply with the arbiter's command. He walked slowly to the players' bench. He drew a glass of ice cold water; drank it with time out between sips for breathing and contemplation; carefully replaced the glass. He noted that one shoe lace seemed insecurely knotted. This situation...
Umpire Wilson's scant supply of patience was exhausted. Turning to the crowd, he screamed his decision to forfeit the game to Boston because of Cobb's behavior. Everyone seemed greatly embarrassed, with the exception of Mr. Cobb. A quick conference was held in which it was agreed that paying spectators deserved consideration. Wherefore another game was played with the ancient centre-fielder completely, conspicuously, Comfortingly (to Umpire Wilson, at least) absent...
Manager Cornelius McGillicuddy, recent purchaser of Cobb's services, wondered uneasily if his team would be fined the customary $1,000 for causing the forfeit of a game. Cobb grinned, having stirred up the first major fracas of the 1927 season, thus adding to his already numerous distinctions...
...considerable satisfaction. Yet loitering lobbyites who glanced up at them as they entered the hotel, and the nimble-witted telephone girl who placed their after-dinner calls, recognized scarcely a face. James J. Walker, the mayor, they recognized. But he was only a guest. And deep-jowled Irvin S. Cobb, fat-jowled Senator Borah, curly-wolf Judge Landis, smartly tailored Speaker Nicholas Longworth, well-oiled little Roger Wolff Kahn (jazzy son of opera-patron Otto H. Kahn)-were only guests. The company itself was as anonymous as a banquet of the Boot and Shoe Retailers' Association...