Word: honus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...himself, no amount of general education had ever dimmed his appreciation for a seat in the bleachers, or an esoteric discussion on the relative merits of Honus Wagner and Marty Marion. He had passed the stage of collecting picture cards and autographed baseballs, when his yearly trip to Yankee Stadium had assumed the proportions of a pilgrimage to Mecca, but increased sophistication and the price of a grandstand seat had served only to pitch his interest on a slightly more detached plane...
...gathered to do homage to a baseball veteran. They were the members of his personally picked, alltime, all-star team: George Sisler, "the greatest first baseman ever" (now a Brooklyn Dodgers scout); Eddie Collins, second base (Boston Red Sox general manager); Frank ("Home Run") Baker, third base (Maryland farmer); Honus Wagner, shortstop (Pittsburgh Pirates coach); Bill Dickey, catcher (U.S. Navy); Lefty Grove, pitcher (Maryland coupon clipper); Walter Johnson, pitcher (Maryland farmer); Tris Speaker, center field (Cleveland wine distributer); and George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, right field (who lives on annuities in Manhattan). Absent were Lieut. Commander Mickey Cochrane, catcher, who failed...
...player: Mel Ott, the New York Giants' right-fielding manager, scored his 1,741st big league run on June 21, breaking the great Honus Wagner's alltime record, hung up in 1917. Ott also holds National League records in home runs (483), runs batted in (1,749), extra base hits (1,013). At a time when most veterans begin to relax, 35-year-old Ott was last week leading both leagues in home runs for the season...
...Seven Hall of Famers: Honus Wagner, Tris Speaker, Walter Johnson, George Sisler, Eddie Collins, Babe Ruth, Manager Connie Mack; and crack Oldtimers Duffy Lewis, Roger Bresnahan, Red Murray, Umpire Bill Klem...
...Boston Braves may never land in Baseball's Hall of Fame. But in his home park . last week he got the 3,000th hit of his big-league career. In the long history of baseball, only six others have accomplished this feat. They are Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Honus Wagner, Eddie Collins, Napoleon Lajoie, and Pop Anson-Immortals...