Word: frisch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Raymond Frisch has been a machine operator in the hat industry since 1935, and Joseph McIntosh was a mechanic and hydroplant operator for a Southern Utility Corporation until 1939, when he became an international representative of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Similar stories lie back of the other Fellows, Charles Connor, Samuel Hassen, Frederick Kelley, Lyle McKinney, Morris Paladino, Joseph Riley, Charles Scholl, Milton Schulman, Edward Wagenfeld, and Norman Johnson...
...have to spoil a good story with an ugly fact, but Pepper Martin couldn't have had his argument with Manager Frank Frisch at the Cardinal training camp in 1931 [TIME, Nov. 4] since the manager of the Cardinals for that year was Gabby Street...
...Cardinal managers since 1925 not all fired, however; Rogers Hornsby, 1925-26; Bob O'Farrell 1927; Bill McKenchnie, 1928-29; Bill Southworth, part of 1929; Gabby Street, 1930-33; Frankie Frisch, 1933-38; Ray Blades, 1939-40; Billy Southworth...
...spring day in 1931 a dust-covered, bowlegged young man, with a hawk nose, buffalo shoulders and long, hairy arms, marched into the St. Louis Cardinals' training camp in Bradentown, Fla. and announced to Manager Frank Frisch: "I'm Martin." Manager Frisch stared. Then he asked Rookie Martin why he was late. Martin explained that he had been detained in jail for riding a freight. "But we sent you railroad tickets." Retorted Martin: "What do you take me for, a dope? I cashed them in and rode for nothing...
...Series form, he became the most fabulous figure in baseball. They called him "The Wild Horse of the Osage." He was the loudest and toughest of the Cardinals' famed Gashouse Gang. Once, when he threw a ball during a game, yards of bandage unraveled from his hand. Manager Frisch stopped the game, learned to his amazement that Martin was playing with a broken finger. "Aw," said Pepper, "it's only a small bone." He horrified the Cardinals' President Sam Breadon by playing football and racing midget autos in off hours...