Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Here's the psychological letdown.'--Bill Cunningham...
Thirdly, the story of Jethroe is not all peaches and cream. Sam is not a good judge of a fly ball, and whether he has a great throwing arm is of little consequence if he isn't there when the ball comes down. Nobody, not even Bill Cunningham, will be able to rave about Jethroe as a defensive player. And Sam is already 30 years old, with not more than four or five years of good baseball in him. Since Rickey's present outfield averages 25 years, why should be add an old man of 30 and bring...
There is an obscure baseball rule that no batter may deliberately make an out, so the Dodger hitters all assumed peculiar chop swings. Roy Campanella, who has not hit a ball on the ground since Bill Cunningham denounced the Red Sox, suddenly bounced to third. After Antonelli walked six foot five inches Newcombe on a series of high outside pitches, Reese proceeded to deliberately hit the most beautiful double play ball to shortstop Ryan that could be imagined, a soft line drive on one bounce...
...this point football gave way to eloquence. Bill Cunningham, a high-salaried local scrivener, arose, said he'd rather be in Washington watching the Red Sox, and opened his eulogy of Dartmouth with a reference to "my beloved alma mater." Things aren't so hot up there, he said, because what with one thing and another they've lost the left side of the defensive line from end to center. But: "We aren't striking the flag," "we older fellows must realize the game has changed;" and "football teaches . . . all those beautiful things without which...
Victor O. Jones '28, managing editor of the Boston Globe, represented Harvard on the platform. Mr. Jones is a little guy who was once sports editor of the Globe, and who knows a good deal about football. He disagreed politely with Cunningham, who had stated that football players made great soldiers, by pointing out that most of the men who fought in the war were in the stands during football games. He mentioned that the seating capacities of our college stadia far exceeded classroom space, and that this rather than the score at Stanford was a cause for worry...