Word: crosleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opener, held at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, Buck Newsom was selected as the starting pitcher against Paul Derringer. Derringer is probably the smartest pitcher in baseball. But Buck Newsom, also known as Old Bo-Bo and The Old Showboat, was not alarmed. A cocky, 32-year-old righthander who had roamed the major leagues for ten years but had never wound up on a pennant-winning team, Newsom had told the baseball world before the season started that he would pitch Detroit into winning this year's American League pennant...
...Crosley hired white-haired, bespectacled "CannonBall" Baker to make a transcontinental run in its new diminutive Covered Wagon (123½ inches overall). His report: "2,454 miles at a cost of $9.14 makes automobile history." Prices: $299 to $450. Company brag: "50 miles on a gallon-EASY...
Jimmy Ripple crossed the plate with the winning run in a riotous seventh inning, which lifted the 26,769 fans in Crosley Field from the depths of despair to the heights...
With a happy, hilarious crowd of 30,640 persons banked around the Crosley Field stands, Walters ended the long line of American League World Series conquests with a courageous three-hit pitching performance. It was the first National League victory since October 9, 1937, snapping the American League's victory string at 10 straight...