Word: groth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ballplayers themselves start gabbing about a youngster," said the Yankees' Bill Dickey, "it's a sign he's going to be around a while." Bill Dickey, like a lot of other baseball pros this spring, was talking of Detroit's 22-year-old John Thomas Groth...
...brawny six-footer with massive forearms, Groth seemed equally able to run, hit and throw, and he took a vicious right-handed cut at the ball in a style that reminded some sportwriters of "Ducky" Medwick in his heyday with the St. Louis Cardinals. Before the spring training even began, the Detroit Tigers had announced flatly that Johnny Groth would play center field for them this year. "I took one look at him," explained Manager Robert Rolfe, "and decided instantly." Added "Red" Rolfe: "He may develop into a hell of a ballplayer...
...probable starting lineups: HARVARD BROWN Batchelder g Scheffer Drake rfb Groth Scully lfb Berns Mudd rhb Wieboldt Louria chb D. Michael Miller lhb Leach Wolf ro Krohn Weiss rl Massare Estin cf G. Michael Potter il Bellows Dawson lo Stellman
...Liberator. In 1926 it became New Masses, pledged to avoid "political affiliations or propaganda obligations." As late as 1936 it could get, for little or no money, such writers as Dreiser and Dos Passes, such poets as Millay and William Rose Benet, such artists as Gropper and Groth...
Miss Betty Groth of the Freshman Housing Office was even more enthusiastic. Taking a long range view of things, she offered the opinion that "they're much improved since the war; they used to be far more studious. Now they're always gentlemen, and what's more they always throw the best parties...