Word: crosetti
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...guess, but many a fan favors the leading Browns, who have never yet won a pennant. To succeed, Manager Luke Sewell's hopefuls must hold their slim lead not only against the strongly bidding New York Yankees (who became even stronger this week with Veteran Frank Crosetti's return from a West Coast war job), but also every other club in the tightly bunched eight...
...this extraordinary coaching regime. He is considered so superior to all other basketball players this year that he is one of the few basketball subjects over which there is no controversy. Born & bred on that little strip of San Francisco waterfront that produced Base-bailers Joe Di Maggio, Frank Crosetti and Tony Lazzeri, Basketballer Luisetti is rated one of the best-of-all-time in basketball. A clever passer, spectacular dribbler, amazingly accurate marksman (with either hand or both), he has effected some of the most exciting scoring sprees ever witnessed by modern critics...
...Philadelphia Athletics in 1932. It set a new major-league record of 992 runs batted in for the season. Five players drove in more than 100 runs each. A grand total of 1,065 runs just missed an-other all-time high. With Gehrig, Dickey, Di Maggio, Selkirk, Crosetti and Lazzeri in the lineup, the Yankees appear to be the hardest-hitting team in the history of modern baseball. Last week they were 2-to-1 favorites to beat an adversary which had a fair claim to equal distinction of another sort...