Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Detroit had no Casey on third base in 1885, and played no game in Minneapolis. On third Detroit had at various times Donnelly, Morton, Ringo, Sam Thompson, Olin, Ned Hanlon, Moriarty and Wood...
...Robinson Casey was third baseman on the Detroit National League ball team. In a game at Minneapolis when the bases were full and the score four to three with but one inning to play," he struck...
...Philip Gibbs; T. P. O'Connor; John L. Balderston, of The New York World; L. R. Holmes, The New York Times; Joseph Grigg, The New York Herald, Arthur S. Draper, New York Tribune; Hal O'Flaherty, Chicago Daily Tribune; John Steele, Chicago Daily News; W. H. Milgate, Detroit News; Robert M. Collins, The Associated Press; Lloyd Allen, United Press; Frazier Hunt, International News Service; Sidney Thatcher, Philadelphia Public Ledger; J. P. Collins, Boston Evening Transcript...
...Robinson Casey was third baseman on the Detroit National League ball team. In a game at Minneapolis when the bases were full and the score " four to three with but one inning more to play," he struck out. A young Harvard man-Ernest Lawrence Thayer-pinned the tragedy into a few neat verses, and Actor DeWolf Hopper took to reciting the poem...
...Casey was not the only batsman whose name worked itself into the week's headlines. It was generally advertised throughout the civilized world that Tyrus R. Cobb, manager and centre-fielder of the Detroit American League team, by virtue of his past season's work, has batted .300 or better for 18 consecutive years, and is therefore undisputed possessor of the " all time batting honors...