Word: goslin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unanimous choice: he had won by a bare 4-to-3 vote over highly touted Willard E. Goslin, superintendent of the Minneapolis schools, whose main handicap was being an outlander. In two years at Minneapolis, drawling, down-to-earth Willard Goslin had won higher pay for teachers, opened new schools, overhauled the study program, been voted Citizen No. 2 (after Sister Kenny), and attracted national attention. The pro-Goslin New York Herald Tribune, "depressed and disheartened" by Jansen's appointment as superintendent, called it the choice "of the man next in line, the insider who knows the ropes...
Since that day, jovial Joe Engel has probably discovered more big-time baseballers than any other scout in the business. He dug up Goose Goslin, Alvin Crowder, Bump Hadley, Buddy Myer, Cecil Travis, Bucky Harris. He also unearthed Joe Cronin, picked up in Kansas City for $7,500 and sold seven years later -after he had become the Senators' manager and married the boss's daughter - to the Boston Red Sox for $250,000. Engel's "finds" helped bring Washington three pennants in ten years...