Word: eddic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Haverhill of the New England League. Billy Madden, who managed the Beverly team and also scouted for Connie Mack, was so impressed by young McInnis' hitting ability that he persuaded him to join with Beverly. "My association with Harvard started then," says Stuffy. "The 1907 Beverly club had Eddic Grant, Bill Matthews, and Eddic Loughlin, all students at Harvard Law School...
Stuffy had his greatest years with the Athletics as first baseman in Connie Mack's $100,000 infield. Frank (Home Run) Baker, Jack Barry, and Eddic Collins were the other members of the famous group. These men carried the A's to world championships in 1910, 1911, and 1913. A yellowing newsclipping dated August 5, 1912, tells how Stuffy helped make the team click...
...Tommy Dorsey play. Pee Wee Russell is playing clarinet obbligato, weaving a jerky, almost insane pattern of dissonant, spit-laden phrases, companying his efforts with facial contortions that make you fear for his blood-pressure. And all the time, the rhythm section led by George Wetting's drums and Eddic Condon's guitar, is giving the boys a wonderful beat to work around. It's the climax, now, and you think it's all over. They can't play any better than this, but at the end of the chorus McPartland raises his hand signalling for one more, and everybody...