Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fradd, Henry Lamar, Jimmie Cox, Frank Vaughan, Hai Ulen, Bert Haines, Ken Dennison, Floyd Stahl, and Adoin Samborski sided by Ensign Ray T. M. kins and Chief Specialists New man Thomas, Lloyd, and Martin are striving to bring utmost cooperation among the units in order to continue boosting the physical standards of students as low as they stay at Harvard. The program will be changed and accelerated even eight weeks to keep up with the physics development of the student...
Base Hits, Not Glitter. With the Phillies, Bucky Harris was given free rein and he made the most of it. He steered Cox away from glittering names, helped him make shrewd deals. In the face of a player shortage that has prevented older and wiser owners from landing much-needed players, Cox got five new faces for his starting lineup - none of whom cost the club more than the major-league waiver price...
With these hustlers in the lineup, Cox's collection of castoffs won eight of their next ten games. They did astonishing things, such as scoring nine runs in one inning to snatch a game from the high & mighty Dodgers; then, just to prove that it was no fluke, scored ten runs in one inning two days later to trounce the Boston Braves...
While Harris worked on the Philly players, Owner Cox took pains to build up the morale of the Philly fans. He bought newspaper space for heart-to-heart talks with them, bought radio time for the broadcasting of team gossip. During games he has the current batting averages of each player posted on the Scoreboard. For future customers, he has started the publication of a sports weekly called The Scoreboard, to be distributed free (through relatives and friends) to members of the armed forces...
...Cox's approach to the angleshooting game of club ownership is paying dividends. The box office reports that in 28 home games this year the Phillies have drawn 253,000 fans to Shibe Park - 61,000 more than the total for all 74 home games last year...