Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sporting a hole around second base big enough to drive through in a Mack truck, the Funsters lost a three run lead in the final innings as their opponents capitalized on infield hits and wild throws. Manager, Bob Curley, ended the contest in the last of the seventh, when his bounding ball over second went for a single to score the tie-breaking run from third...
Collier's readers last week were given a pair of rosy-hued glasses through which to goggle at the progress and percentages of Boston's "Our Jim" Curley. But the tint wasn't applied heavily enough for one paragraph of Curleyana: that color should have been CRIMSON...
...Curley would hardly have granted an interview to his erstwhile tail-twisters, the Lampoon. So you can don the emerald green and read Collier's for August 10, or you can look up the CRIMSON for April 20 and get the facts--straight from the Mayor's mouth...
Intramural baseball hit midseason this week with Dudley's unbeaten Commuters leading the league and Leverett's Bunnies a slim half game off the pace. These clubs will clash Wednesday on the Freshman diamond for league supremacy, when fireballer Bob Curley is slated to take the mound for Dudley to oppose the deceptive slow curves of Bunny Bill Johnson...
...Curley, the modest mentor of the Dudley forces, attributes the success of his club to tight fielding in the clutches and powerful hitting by catcher Dave Bishop, left fielder Ed Haley, and second sacker Andy Lewis. He also praises the fine play of utility infielder Bob Entwhistle, "who will stand ready Wednesday to bridge any gap in the defense...