Word: greenbergs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the whole question was exemplified in the case of one of baseball's highest-paid players ($35,000 or more)- Tiger Henry ("Hank") Greenberg, homerun champion (41) and "most valuable" player of the American League last year. Outfielder Greenberg, 30, unmarried, no dependents, local draft No. 621, was due to be called in midseason. With him, Detroit was a formidable ball club; without him, it might be just average. In Manhattan last week, on his way to join the Tigers, Hank Greenberg spoke a marmoreal mouthful: ". . . When my number comes up, I'm going...
Outfielder Greenberg was not to be baseball's only sacrifice. The Phillies stood to lose their best pitcher, Hugh Mulcahy. The Cleveland Indians learned with mixed feelings that Outfielder Beau Bell, 32, had been deferred because of varicose veins. Their star pitcher, Bobby Feller, 22, had Order No. 2,857, was almost certain of getting through the season uncalled...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Joseph Hodges Choate memorial fellowship to Michael Greenberg, of Cambridge, England. Sheldon travelling fellowship in philosophy to George D. W. Berry, of Grand Lodge, Mich. Leon W. Redpath scholarship to Paul B. Metzler 1G., of Mansfield, O. Stoughton scholarship to Joseph Greenberg 1G., of Mattapan, Mass. George W. Dillaway fellowship to Ward MacL. Hussey 1G., of Chicago...
...North Conway, N. H., up-&-coming Frank Kovacs of Oakland, Calif, trounced Chicago's 19-year-old Seymour Greenberg, public parks champion, 6-4, 6-1, 8-6, to win the second annual Eastern Slope Gold Racquet tournament...
...Challenge Round against Australia last summer. Chief rivals to McNeill and Hunt were: Frank Guernsey of Rice Institute, intercollegiate champion the past two years (neither Hunt nor McNeill competed last year); Ted Schroeder of Southern California, national junior champion; Dave Freeman of Pomona College, national badminton champion; Seymour Greenberg of Northwestern, national public parks champion...