Word: giante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...buffaloed TIME'S timely editors, forced them to a weak reply to his implications of impure motives in their selection of Republican Chairman Hamilton as man-of-the-week, led them to select for their Oct. 5 issue two men-of-the-week (Yankee Gehrig and Giant Hubbell), one of whom must be a winner...
Yankee Gehrig and Giant Hubbell were, in a sense, both winners, each being chosen most-valuable-player in his league the week he appeared on TIME'S cover...
...first game of last week's World Series between the New York Giants and the New York Yankees, Pitcher Carl Hubbell of the Giants made just one mistake. That was a pitch which Yankee Outfielder Selkirk knocked into the right-field stands in the third inning for a home run. In a cold rain that started in the second inning, kept up throughout the game, Giant batters slowly ground out runs against Yankee Pitcher Ruffing-one in the fifth on Bartell's homer, another in the sixth, four more in the eighth when the Yankee infield blundered. Giants...
...Avenue, President Roosevelt, in the back seat of an open Pierce-Arrow, waved his tan felt hat. At the entrance to the Polo Grounds, the car crossed the sidewalk, went through a gate usually reserved for groundkeepers' trucks, rolled across the outfield, stopped at a box near the Giant dugout. The President threw out the first ball of the second World Series game, postponed 24 hr. on account of rain...
...game he had chosen to see turned out to be the longest (2 hr. 49 min.) and one of the most spectacular in World Series history. When it was over, 18-to-4 for the Yankees, the Giants had used five pitchers. Every Yankee including Pitcher Lefty Gomez had made at least one hit and one run. Baseball statisticians had compiled an even dozen new records. It was the biggest score and the worst beating in World Series history. Most brilliant individual performance was that of Second Baseman Tony Lazzeri. He duplicated a feat accomplished only once before...