Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reason. Kicking Owner Cox out of baseball was the most drastic step aging (77) Kenesaw Mountain Landis had had to take in his 23 years as autocrat of baseball. He declared Cox "permanently ineligible" to hold any office in the major or minor leagues. The lank-haired, obtrusively autocratic old Federal Judge had been put in his job to squash just that kind of thing. Gambling had nearly ruined baseball when the Chicago White ("Black") Sox threw the 1919 World Series for gamblers' bribes: it was a jarring blow to the public's confidence in baseball...
Young (33), wealthy (Manhattan lumber companies and marriage) and blatantly self-confident, Bill Cox had bought the Phillies after they had finished last or next to last for ten years, were all but bankrupt and the joke of the National League...
Fatal Firing. With a handful of mediocre ballplayers, one or two stalwarts and ex-Boy Wonder Bucky Harris as manager, he tub-thumped his team until he got the nickname "Rah Rah" Cox. For no apparent reason, the Phillies won some games ; until the end of May they were in the first division and the gate boomed...
...Suddenly Cox fired Harris - newspapers were notified 24 hours before Harris...
...Cox publicly caterwauled with National League President Ford Frick over two protested games, quadrupled his own salary to $20,000, and hired "Fat Freddy" Fitzsimmons, spunky, good-natured ex-Dodger pitcher, to manage the Phillies. They ended the season in seventh place, where Bucky Harris had said they belonged all the time...