Word: hoag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relatively unknown quantity, but not a negligible one, since the Big Red, which took seventh in the I. C. 4-A. meet a year ago, is considerably stronger this season and will provide Captain Penn Tuttle and his cohorts with their toughest competition. Ranney, Wing-enter, Schmidt, and Hoag are the Ithacans' big guns...
With all due regard to your reputation for accurate reporting, I cannot accept without a certain amount of skepticism your statement, in TIME, Oct. 18, to the effect that Yankee Outfielder Myril Hoag performs his baseball chores on feet that would do credit to any 5-ft., 100-lb. toe dancer in Hollywood...
...Hoag's Feet...
TIME erred, but the size of Outfielder Hoag's feet is still probably worth the price of at least a League game ticket to Reader Fant. Myril Hoag wears, not size 3½shoes as TIME reported, but size 4 on his right foot, size 4½ on his left. Hoag is 5 ft. 10½in. tall, weighs 175 lb., is famed for his feet, tiniest in the major leagues...
...fifth game started with Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez, who pitched the first game, back pitching for the Yankees, Cliff Melton for the Giants. This time the teams went on a home-run spree. In the second inning Yankee Outfielder Myril Hoag, who wears size 3½ shoes, cracked out a home run; and in the next inning Yankee Outfielder Joe Di Maggio, home-run champion of the major leagues, did likewise. Then Melvin Ott hit a homer for the Giants, brought in Dick Bartell to tie the score. In a fair way to lose his first Series game, Pitcher Gomez thereupon...