Word: greenbergs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in the Detroit lineup last week, after four years in the Army, big Hank Greenberg needed just four chances at bat to get his eye in. On the fifth try, he powdered a 375-ft. homer into his favorite left-field stand. With that wallop (and a repeat three days later), ex-Captain Greenberg: 1) began earning his $55,000-a-year salary, baseball's highest (for 60 days at least his pay remains at the 1941 rate); 2) made the front-running Tigers odds-on to win the American League pennant; 3) gave a psychological lift...
...doubted that pitching would cinch the league championship. How it stacked up in quality against prewar slug ging would get a test in the last two-thirds of the season. The tester: big Hank Greenberg, who led the 1940 hitting pa rade with 41 homers, pocketed his Army discharge last week and planned to give Detroit a hitting as well as a pitching punch...
Will ball players be able to come back to baseball after the war if they were in the service? "Not if they're in their thirties," claimed the Cannon, Georgia, product, "especially if they've laid off for a long time." 25-year-old Davis gives players such as Greenberg little chance of a comeback...
Henry Agard Wallace, who warmed up to his Chinese visit (TIME, July 3) by playing three fast games of volleyball with Superfortress airmen, and incidentally gave some pointers to teammate Captain Henry ("Hank") Greenberg, peacetime baseball star, later gave some pointers on the American way of living: "Some American has said that the Americans are fighting for the right to throw pop bottles at the umpire in Brooklyn. That's one way of looking at it. We're fighting for our way of life. That doesn't mean we are trying to make the rest...
...suburban Rye, businesslike Forest Hills-will still be in the game. But the one player with top-flight memories for the gallery is likely to be 30-year-old veteran Sidney Wood. Two favorites for National Championship honors are the two-hander Francisco Segura of Ecuador and southpaw Seymour Greenberg, graduate of the public parks. At their best, none of these can touch the all-round brilliancy of Big Bill Tilden or Fred Perry, the pyrotechnic power of Ellsworth Vines, the high-gearing of Donald Budge. It will be a season of ghosts and neophytes, with the color and substance...