Word: greenberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...armed hurlers are a rarity these days. Baseball games are often dragged out to dreary, argumentative, three-hour marathons and slow-moving, histrionic pitchers are primarily responsible for the delays. Last week, in an attempt to get back to the oldfashioned, snappy, two-hour game,* Cleveland General Manager Hank Greenberg tried a newfangled method...
Using a fire-engine red Jeepster, Greenberg hustled relief pitchers out of Cleveland's bull pen, got them to the mound in a matter of seconds compared to the ambling three to five minutes usually required. Less colorful, but equally timesaving, were two other Greenberg suggestions which the Indians now follow: 1) make a pitcher wait his batting turn in the "on deck" circle instead of in the dugout, and 2) make him go to the mound more promptly at the start of each inning. These stunts, the Cleveland management figured, had already cut the time of games...
...real estate business on his own, became president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, and bought an estimated $10 million worth of property scattered from Hoboken, N.J. to Utah. He also became part owner (with Bing Crosby and others) of the Pittsburgh Pirates, helped lure Hank Greenberg to the club...
Coach Dick Whitney will start either Hank Greenberg or George Batchelder in place of Broder...