Word: lazzeri
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Died. Paul Bernard Krichell, 74, chief scout for 37 years for the New York Yankees, credited with discovering more baseball talent than any other man in history (he signed some 200 players including Lou Gehrig, Leo Durocher, Vic Raschi, Red Rolfe, Phil Rizzuto, Tony Lazzeri); after long illness; in New York City...
...Rajah never bothered to deny that Grover Cleveland Alexander had sipped a few before he took over from Haines and struck out Yankee Tony Lazzeri to save the 1926 World Series for the Cardinals. It seemed a workable way of staying calm in the clutch. Now there is another...
...Cards had a seventh-inning lead, 3-2, but the Yankees had loaded the bases with two out. Lou Gehrig was on first, Bob Meusel on second, Earle Combs on third, and slugging Tony Lazzeri was up. Pete ambled sleepily to the mound, took a couple of warm-up throws and struck Lazzeri out on three pitches, went on to save the St. Louis lead and win the World Championship. Later, Pete reminisced about his second pitch to Lazzeri, which Lazzeri had hit whistling down the third-base line-barely foul. Said he: "A foot made the difference between being...
...confused with an earlier Yankee Murderers' Row (Ruth, Gehrig, Meusel and Lazzeri), whose club banged out 158 home runs in 1927.**Last week, two other National League teams caught the fence-busting fever and broke out in a rash of home runs. In one game, the Stv Louis Cards and Pittsburgh Pirates hit ten between them, tying the major-league record...
Died. Tony ("Poosh'em Up") Lazzeri, 41, onetime hard-hitting, pantherlike second baseman and infield sparkplug of the New York Yankees (1925-37), who starred with Titans Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig as a member of the famed "Murderers' Row"; after a fall apparently due to a heart attack; in Millbrae, Calif...