Word: gannett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bases after making two outs. Bob Hoye opened the inning by lifting a long floater to Ken Brown in center field, but he was followed by Paul Doyle who reached first after Gally booted his grounder. Pitcher Tom Healey singled, but Doyle was held up at second base. Bob Gannett was called out on strikes, but Art Johns walked filling the bases. The next man up was Lupien who had singled and tripled on two previous occasions at bat, but in his final effort he poled a brisk line drive into the hands of centerfielder Brown to end the inning...
Outside of Congress, main figures in the fight against the Reorganization Bill were as extraordinary as the uproar they helped promote. One was Publisher Frank Gannett, who backed up his fulminations against the bill throughout his chain of upstate New York papers with something called the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government to lobby against the bill under directions of a $400-a-week propagandist named Dr. Edward Rumely. The other was famed Father Charles E. Coughlin who emerged from his retirement to make two radio speeches on the subject. Coughlin speeches and Gannett literature produced a record-breaking flood...
Besides Lupien, catcher Paul Doyle and second baseman Dave Shean garnered three hits apiece. Shortstop Dick Grondahl drove out two base knocks in three attempts, and all the other Mitchellmen, even the light-hitting Curtiss, get one safe blow, except Rud Hoye. Centerfielder Gannett and left-fielder Jo Jo Soltz smacked doubles. Two of Doyle's hits were two-base affairs...
...injuries will keep the Mitchell team from top strength as they enter today's encounter. Varsity mound mainstay for two years, Ed Ingalls is out with a bad knee and a sore arm, while the hard-hitting Bobble Gannett will be missing from his center field post with a pulled groin muscle...
There is still a chance that Gannett may be ready for the Quakers, but probably Dave Shean will start in the center garden moving Art Johns to second, Dick Grondahl to short and Dick Ulin inserted at the hot corner...