Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...powerful offensive team. They had the best batting average (.299) in the league, were 25 percentage points ahead of the Yankees. But they were weak in pitching. And pitching is considered 80% of baseball. To improve their defensive strength, Owner Tom Yawkey last winter bought Elden Auker and Jake Wade from the Tigers and Denny Galehouse from the Indians. But the pitcher from whom they expect big things (just in case Lefty Grove's arm is really dead) is Woodrow Rich, 22-year-old hillbilly, who won 19 games for their Little Rock farm last year...
...well-to-do Manhattan brewer with a home on Fifth Avenue, he made his players clean the cages of his private menagerie before he would bring the bat and ball down to the vacant lot where they played. He fired any player who struck out. For young Jake could not bear to see his team lose...
...League look like seven dwarfs. Since 1921 they have won ten pennants, seven world championships. They won pennants as he wanted them to-early in the season. They won World Series in four straight games. The sport-pages' nickname Owner Ruppert liked best was "Four Straight Jake...
...League Park, winning the first game 6 to 0 and the night-cap 1 to 0. In New York the Red Sox dropped two to the Yankees. Lefty Grove lost his first game of the year as the Yanks took the opener 10 to 0, with Joe Cronin and Jake Powell being exiled for fighting. The Yankees also took the second game 5 to 4. Other scores--NATIONAL: Philadelphia 9, Brooklyn 5; Philadelphia 7, Brooklyn 4; Cincinnati 7, Chicago 3; Chicago 3, Cincinnati 0; Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 4 (17 innings); St. Louis 9, Pittsburgh 6. AMERICAN: Detroit...
...King's matchmaker, Jake Koci, who has had a busy time trying to find an acceptable bride for Zog, last week breathed a sigh of relief. "It's fine," he declared, "but you know the monarch of a small country such as ours had to be very careful not to get mixed up in international politics through marriage." Confidant Koci's assurance was made with tongue-in-cheek. Zog has long been over his head in international waters. Since 1927 he has been a puppet of Mussolini. Italian non-interest-bearing loans bolster Albanian Government finances...