Word: joes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only once been dangerously hurt. This was when a pitched ball knocked him unconscious in 1934. But he was in the lineup the next day, hit three triples in five innings. Closest call of all came when Gehrig was laid up with acute lumbago. To save his record, Manager Joe McCarthy had him motored to the park, put him at the head of the batting order instead of his usual position of 4th, made arrangements to have him whisked back to his sick bed as soon as he could contrive to be put out. To his dismay, Gehrig...
...could not hit the Hubbell screwball, Yankee batsmen who had never encountered it could scarcely hope to do so. Yankee enthusiasts retaliated with the argument that the Polo Grounds, where the grandstands are nearer to the plate than in the Stadium, would suit home run experts like Gehrig, Joe Di Maggio, Bill Dickey. Hired to sign stories for Hearst sport pages, Pitcher Hubbell and First Baseman Gehrig met in the syndicate's office in Manhattan. Said First Baseman Gehrig: "This fellow Hubbell . . . isn't much on conversation...
...another. Tendler, now a 180-lb. restaurateur, is the manager of Philadelphia's latest pugilistic hope, a large blond Italian named Al Ettore. Without fighting much outside his home town, Ettore had by last summer managed to get enough local following to justify a bout with famed Joe Louis, who is trying to rebuild the reputation as a superfighter that was destroyed by Max Schmeling last June. Last week, 24 hours before the tenth anniversary of the rainy night that Gene Tunney beat Jack Dempsey there for the championship of the world, Ettore and Louis crawled into a ring...
...many years at his country home at Lake Hopatcong, N. J. Funnyman Joe Cook has been assembling at great expense safety pins, collar buttons, unset stones, Japanese netsukes, miniature bibles, bathtub faucets, tin soldiers, perfume bottles, ball bearings, for his celebrated collection of objects ''no larger than a man's hand." An object which qualified for the Cook collection appeared in New York's art mart last week, a 16th Century portrait four and one-half inches in diameter. Comedian Cook is an unlikely purchaser, however, for the picture is the only authenticated self-portrait...
...asininities of James Cagney as Bottom, and Joe E. Brown and Hugh Herbert as two of his dramatic colleagues, are truly asinine, and therefore far superior to the formalized, cut and dried nonsense one is used to seeing...