Word: lazzeri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regime. He is considered so superior to all other basketball players this year that he is one of the few basketball subjects over which there is no controversy. Born & bred on that little strip of San Francisco waterfront that produced Base-bailers Joe Di Maggio, Frank Crosetti and Tony Lazzeri, Basketballer Luisetti is rated one of the best-of-all-time in basketball. A clever passer, spectacular dribbler, amazingly accurate marksman (with either hand or both), he has effected some of the most exciting scoring sprees ever witnessed by modern critics...
...been hired by the Cincinnati Reds for next year and" Oscar Vitt, manager of the Newark Bears (International League), has been hired by the Cleveland Indians, after Casey Stengel's "delighted," only one major-league managerial job remained open: with the St. Louis Browns. Meanwhile, Infielder Tony Lazzeri, who was released by the New York Yankees to seek a manager's berth, last week settled down not as manager but as coach of the Chicago Cubs...
...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 singled, scoring Tony Lazzeri, and a moment later crossed the plate on Lou Gehrig's double which was enough to win the game, 4-to-2 and the World Series, four games...
...course the Giants may go whole Hoag and Ripple the Old Whitehead off the Yankees, thus slipping them the well-known double-Crossetti. So far the Yanks have been able to out-Lazzeri other club but DiMaggio they can take the Giants? (Do you imagine, stupid!). Remember the Giants are very good at Gehring the mail...
...Redwood City, Calif., where he is wintering, Infielder Tony ("Poosh 'em up") Lazzeri of the New York Yankees filed suit for divorce, declared his wife Maye "no longer loved him," few hours later called the suit "all a big mistake...