Word: groin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three hours, father & son lay on hospital beds side by side, their blood vessels connected at the groin by an ingenious arrangement of tubes, valves and pump. Said a hospital spokesman: "It was the smoothest case of the kind we have had." Bobby seemed better at once. In a week he went home and was soon up & around. Following routine, his father was kept in the hospital to make sure that he had suffered no harm. At first, as is usual, he ran a slight fever, but he quickly recovered. Sidney Lawrence was about to be discharged when he developed...
Mize missed out on a lot of good things. With Rip Collins starring at first base, the Cards won three penuants while a groin injury stretched Mize's minor league term to six years. After playing for six years and batting .336 for the Redbirds, he was sold to the Giants in the winter of 1941 for $50,000 and two players. The Cardinals immediately won the first of three consecutive pennants...
Shulman relies on his peculiar and by now jaded stylistic quirks for his particular brand of humor. The present volume opens: "Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Four shots ripped into my groin, and I was off on the biggest adventure of my life . . ." Chapter 4 consists in full of the following gem: "Mother was reading in the living room when I came into the house. 'Mother! Halloa! I have news!' I cried. Mother looked up from the Racing Form. 'Yeah?' she said. 'I'm in love,' I declared. 'With a girl?' I nodded. "Thank God,' said Mother." A three-star side...
...more importance to the Yardlings than the lopsided score, however, was a first period injury to Bitsy Grant, leading scorer for the Crimson. Grant was hit simultaneously by three men and was carried off the field with a groin injury...