Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liberals on hand, not all sided with Kennedy and Douglas. On the key motion to substitute Kennedy's broad proposals for Harry Byrd's limited aims. Kennedy lost Arizona's Carl Hayden. Alabama's Lister Hill and John Sparkman, Oklahoma Millionaire Robert Kerr and Texas' Ralph Yarborough...
Kinds of Defeat. As Honest Dickie Kerr recalls, afterwards all the high spots of his career were involved with a sort of defeat. It was Dickie Kerr who threw a two-and-two pitch to a burly batter named Babe Ruth one afternoon in 1921 in the old Polo Grounds. And the Babe belted it so far it set a special kind of record: it broke the hands of an outfield clock some 500 ft. from the plate. It was Pitcher Kerr who asked his boss Charles ("The Old Roman") Comiskey for a raise after winning 40 games...
Never, that is, until he had drifted down to a job as manager of the Class D Daytona Beach farm club for the St. Louis Cardinals. There he had a skinny Polish kid named Stanley Musial who thought he was a pitcher. Kerr watched the boy and decided that as a pitcher he made a superb hitter. When Musial was not working on the mound, Kerr kept him in the line-up as an outfielder so that his potent bat was always available. Then one day Stan fell on his throwing arm and finished his career...
Million-Dollar Accident. Dickie Kerr disagreed. He took the discouraged boy into his home, fed him and befriended him, and made a place for his pregnant wife. "I convinced him that he wasn't much of a pitcher anyway," says Kerr. "And as a hitter he was a natural. You might say Stan's was a million-dollar accident...
...Dickie Kerr is done with baseball now, and it is his proud boast that "I've never gotten anything out of the game but what it paid me." But last week, at 64, he was enjoying a great deal more than that. When Stan ("The Man") Musial became the eighth man ever to make 3.000 big-league hits (TIME, May 12), Dickie Kerr and his wife heard the news in their new Houston home, a neat white frame bungalow that had just been bought for them, out of gratitude and a sense of everlasting obligation, by a sore-armed...