Word: hartnett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manager Charles Leo ("Gabby") Hartnett of the Chicago Cubs, one of the greatest catchers of all time, sat in the dugout at St. Louis' Sportsman's Park last week with two fingers wrapped in gauze. Nervously he watched his teammates, beaten by the St. Louis Cardinals in the first game of a doubleheader, whack out 17 hits for a 10-to-3 victory and thereby clinch the National League pennant on the next to the last day of the season. In that split second between the final put-out and the first whoops of his teammates, grinning Gabby...
...Cardinals. Others hailed big Bill Lee, winner of 22 games this season, who pitched on four successive days last week; Dizzy Dean who, even with his sore arm, beat the Pirates in the first game of their crucial series just before the final series in St. Louis; Manager Gabby Hartnett who, knowing Dizzy Dean's love for dramatic spots, smartly selected him to pitch the crucial game, then next day socked the homer that put the Cubs in first place; and Owner Philip K. Wrigley, who selected Go-getter Hartnett as the necessary sparkplug to win this year...
...would name substitute O'Dea as starting catcher, since he himself had two sprained fingers on his throwing hand. He replied that he would push in the teeth of the writer who said O'Dea would play today. O'Dea may have to catch this afternoon, but Gabby Hartnett, active or inactive, has roused the cheers of the baseball world for the "Southern" side of the 1938 World Series...
...19th manager of the 62-year-old Cubs, 37-year-old Gabby Hartnett, in his 17 years, has played under six of them, has become a smart handler of pitchers, a shrewd observer of men. Even Dizzy Dean once admitted that Gabby Hartnett was the only baseballer that was "smarter than me." But astute Owner Wrigley, well aware of the fact that brilliant ball players seldom have been successful as managers, did not give fun-loving Catcher Hartnett a new contract with his new job until the Cubs had tucked away a few victories...
While Hero Hartnett was the centre of a boisterous ring-around-a-rosy celebration at Wrigley Field just before his managerial debut in a double-header with the Dodgers (which they split), onetime Hero Charlie Grimm was on his way back to his Missouri farm. Mindful of his two pennants (1932 and 1935) and the enviable record of never finishing lower than third in the six years he managed the Cubs, Charlie Grimm smiled ruefully. "That's baseball." said...