Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Cards. In the National League, it was leathery-faced Eddie Dyer's first season as a big league manager; if his Cardinals won, everyone would say they couldn't have missed with all that talent; if they lost, it would be all his fault. Said he gloomily, to anyone who would listen: "I need an A-1 catcher. My pitchers...
...Eddie Dyer had so many pitchers he needed toes and fingers to count them. Most promising: a 30-year-old Oklahoma newcomer, chisel-chinned ex-Corporal Fred Martin, who has poise, a sizzling fastball, a good curve, a tricky sinker and, most important of all, control. Everywhere Manager Dyer looked he saw more talent than he could use. His problem: which players-especially which pitchers-to sell...
...Charles Dyer Wright...
Next came folk singers Josh (One Meat Ball) White, Burl (Blue Tail Fly) Ives and Woody (Ballads from the Dust Bowl) Guthrie, and jazz purists like Pianist Mary Lou Williams and Saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, and guitar-strumming Balladeer Richard Dyer-Bennet, singing Elizabethan love lyrics. His best sellers: Burl Ives, and an album of American country dances...
...Louis, Cardinal Boss Sam Breadon, who pushes a button and pro duces new talent from his vast farm chain, pushed a special managerial button and up came barrel-chested Eddie Dyer from Texas. Dyer had been a fair pitcher, talent scout and Cardinal farm system director, a well-liked manager at Houston and Columbus. Businessman Sam Breadon had lots of confidence in his new manager; he also regretted losing...