Word: fenway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inherited from the Detroit lumberman who was his foster-father to buy the Boston Red Sox in 1933, his earnest purpose was to put that city and that team back on the baseball map. Subsequent developments proved that he was not bluffing. He promptly spent $500,000 improving Fenway Park, $400,000 for new players. When the Red Sox, perennial tail-enders of the American League since 1924, finished in fourth place last season, Owner Yawkey was disappointed. Last week, almost before other big-league owners had figured out their budgets for the winter trading season, Tom Yawkey opened...
...York Yankees paid $125,000 and took over a mortgage on Fenway Park, in exchange for Babe Ruth. In 1933 the Chicago Cubs paid $125,000 for Chuck Klein...
Paramount and Fenway: "Our Dally Bread"--King Vidor's hold interpretation of the current of things social and economic. Reviewed in this issue...
Paramount and Fenway: "Our Dally Bread"--King Vidor's bold and excellent interpretation of the current of things social and economic. Depicts the back-to-the-farm movement in a moving and vivid style. Also "Kansas City Princess"--Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrel in another of their mildly amusing and risque pictures...
...spectacular Pittsburgh Pirates, headed by Warren Heller, U. of Pitt's All-American halfback and the latest sensation of the National Football League, will be the next opponents of the Boston Redskins who were nosed out in their initial home game at Fenway Park by the individual brilliance of Harry Newman of the New York Giants...