Word: exhibitioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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At that point the champion's comedy ceased. With "the wife and kiddies" heavy on his mind, earnest Jimmy Braddock met Baer's sporadic, inconclusive assaults, kept brushing aside his extended left, boring in, plodding on, piling up points. As an exhibition of good boxing, the match lacked...
¶ Edwin Collins ("Alabama") Pitts, one-time Sing Sing convict: permission to play professional baseball except in exhibition games; from Baseball Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis (TIME, June 17).
Such a picture is John Steuart Curry's famed Tornado (TIME, Dec. 24 et ante). Showing a frightened Kansas family with children and farm pets rushing for a cyclone cellar, it won the $1,000 second prize at the Pittsburgh International Exhibition of 1933, was featured at the Chicago...
In 1933 Pitcher Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals called attention to himself by refusing to play in an exhibition game. Result: $100 fine.
In 1934 Dean refused to play in another exhibition game. Result: $100 fine and seven-day suspension for refusing to pay it.