Word: groves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the Hall's electorate - 161 U.S. baseball writers - added four more names to the 49 on the plaques. All the new choices were living men (and all in their 40s). The four: ¶ Robert Moses ("Lefty") Grove, 46, taciturn and angular, one of baseball's greatest southpaws. His equipment: control and a fireball exceeded only by the late Walter Johnson's. He won exactly 300 games (31 in his best year with the Athletics), quit baseball five years ago. Present occupation: running a combination poolroom and bowling alley at Lonaconing...
...Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, 43, sparkplug catcher of Connie Mack's great Athletics of the late '20s and Lefty Grove's battery mate. His lifetime batting average: a hefty .320. After managing Detroit for 4½ seasons (and spoiling his health and cheery disposition), he forsook baseball in 1938, is now working for a rubber company in Montana. ¶ Carl ("Meal Ticket") Hubbell, 43, the great "clutch" pitcher (he always won in a pinch). Lean and emotionless, he seldom used more stuff than he needed to get his man, seldom tried for strike-out records...
They had another report, signed by four Republican members of the War Investigating Committee, which charged that Bilbo had accepted gratuities possibly amounting to as much as $88,000 from Mississippi contractors who obtained Government war work; that he had collected funds from war contractors for the Juniper Grove Baptist Church. The Senators also noted the charge that he had accepted $1,500 to help a drug addict get a narcotics permit...
Pilot Hamm headed for the clearest space he could find, brushed through a grove of trees on the way. The DC-3 burst into pieces at the crash. Somehow, the stewardess and 18 passengers escaped with their lives. But Pilot Hamm and his copilot, Harmon E. Ring, had made their last flight...
...charge that really outraged The Man was the one that he had deposited money collected for the Juniper Grove parsonage in a special fund from which he alone could draw. "Gentlemen of the committee," said he, bitterly, "that was a sacred fund and I want you and the world to know that if I ever forget the teachings of my sainted father and want to get money wrongfully I would never start by stealing from the church...