Word: doc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Eddie Dyer sharply: "If you've got to sing, wait until I get off this bus. I don't see anything to sing about." Things were different after they had taken a game from Cincinnati and learned that Brooklyn had blown one to Boston. They gave Doc Weaver, the club trainer, a rousing cheer for being the last man to board the bus. "Know what will stop falling hair?" someone asked. "No, what?" said Doc, and the whole bus howled when he got the answer: "The floor." Everything seemed funny...
...disturb the sleep of hotel guests. Eddie Dyer's Cardinals have no band, but they like music. A phonograph continually grinds out cowboy dirges, swing and sometimes bebop in the clubhouse when they are in St. Louis. It is the successor of an old hand-winding Gramophone that Doc Weaver brought into the clubhouse 22 years ago. The music box helped them win the 1942 pennant, with Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy the theme song. In 1946, in another hot pennant race, Doc Weaver scoured record shops until he found another record of Mirandy-and the Cardinals kept it spinning...
...FOOTNOTE*-Another of Doc Weaver's maneuvers for luck has been familiar to Cardinals over a span of 22 years. It is the "double whammy," a ceremonial manipulation of the hands which is supposed to bring misfortune to opposing teams...
...crud who has been mewling away about the art of writing for the last 2,000 years, and pompously presuming to toss compliments to his betters, such as and specifically me." Still feigning an inability to remember 70-year-old Canby's name, Pegler called him "Mr. Canfield," "doc," "the old boy" and "gramp." Concluded Pegler: "If the old goat wants to get tough . . . what does he mean quoting my piece without permission? I am copyrighted...
...first big event on the schedule was the parade down Michigan Avenue: Doc Johnson's boys and some 1,500 other temple bandsmen; the Medinah nobles in $42,500 worth of new uniforms; the country's leading citizens decked out like Zouaves and harem guards; Imperial Potentate Galloway Calhoun of Tyler, Tex., sitting in a car in a bower of 120,000 Texas roses; 1,000 chanters (glee clubs), drill teams, the mounted Pinto Patrol from Oklahoma City, the Black Horse Patrol from the Kansas City, Mo. Ararat Temple (whose most illustrious noble is Harry S. Truman...