Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rebuttal. In Detroit, Wife Beater Zigmund Norkoski, under court injunction not to lay a hand on her, found a way: butting her with his head...
...Detroit, the Tigers were long on pitching, led by Hal Newhouser; long on hitting (if cocky Slugger Dick Waken eld hit the way he talked, he would lead the league). But the Tigers had a sieve for an infield...
...Louis 7, Detroit...
...investment was the purchase (for $1,200,000) of a Government-built war plant which had turned out B-29 wings during the war, has been idle ever since. Scranton bought it from the War Assets Corp. and leased it (for $130,000 a year) to its old tenant, Detroit's Murray Corp., for the peacetime output of stoves, kitchen cabinets and sinks...
...halfway point, most of the wartimers were going down, the oldtimers were coming up; and a half dozen flashy rookies were having both ups & downs. One little slip by any one of the trio of Wakefield, Mullin and McCosky. and a well-muscled youngster named Hoot Evers* would make Detroit's outfield. (But Evers himself slipped this week, fractured his ankle, will be out for about eight weeks.) Dick Sisler, who hits the ball farther but not as often as his famous father, was trying to catch the Cardinals' Ray Sanders off first base. But the rookies expected...