Word: greenbergs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico-born Ralph Kiner, 24, had done for the seventh-place Pittsburgh Pirates what Hank Greenberg was hired-at a reported salary of nearly $100,000-to do. At 36, and in his first season with the Pirates, Hank was pretty much of a flop, even though Pittsburgh's left-field fence had been brought in closer to help him. But Greenberg bunked with young Kiner on road trips, talked while his protégé listened, practiced with him. On Hank's advice, Kiner stood closer to the plate, spread his feet a little more, learned...
...baseball history only four men-Babe Ruth, Jimmy Foxx, Hack Wilson and Hank Greenberg-had hit 50 home runs in one season. Last week, with eight games of the season still left, a tall young ex-Navy pilot named Ralph Kiner became the fifth. He banged No. 50 into the left-field Scoreboard at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field, which put him one up on the New York Giants' Big John Mize (TIME, Aug. 25) in the race to be 1947's home-run king. Mize became the sixth to make the 50 Club two days later...
...Greeny Greenberg, a former associate of Bugsy, was found dead. Police arrested Bugsy. In jail, Bugsy lived fine, arranged for meals of steak and pheasant, and had liquor served in his cell to entertain his women visitors. And things took care of themselves. Two State's witnesses suddenly died: the case against Bugsy died with them...
...Kudymenko, Zhigan and Sevastyanov popped up in the line-up of the Kiev Dynamo team, which needed extra strength for a big game with Leningrad. No matter how loudly they squawked, Odessa fans could do no more about it than Detroit fans could when the Tigers sold Hank Greenberg. Local officials explained, "Alas, it's all over. It's out of our hands now." The Kiev Dynamo, like all the Dynamo soccer teams, is sponsored by the Soviet secret police...
Other officers elected were: Margaret Muller of Smith, to the vice-presidency, and Ruth Livingston, of Bennington College, as secretary-treasurer. Miss Bruchholz and Beverly Greenberg of Mount Holyoke were elected to the Executive Board while on position was left open to be filed by a Connecticut representative...