Word: leiber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some said "The Kid" had been overworked by the turnstile-wooing Indians; others said he had become quaky on his pinnacle of fame. Some said he was bat-shy because one of his wild speedballs had almost killed Hank Leiber; others said Feller was just a flash in the pan. Even at the end of the season, when the Cleveland papoose wound up in a blaze of glory-fanning 18 Detroit Tigers in one game for a new major-league record and topping both leagues with a total of 241 strikeouts-the experts still hesitated to call Feller great...
...most interest to the hot-stovers were the trades the managers cooked up. Most active trader was the New York Giants' Bill Terry. After making an even-Stephen swap with the Chicago Cubs (Bartell, Leiber, Mancuso for Demaree, Jurges, O'Dea) at the minor-league meeting the week before, the Giants paid the Washington Senators $20,000 (plus two players) for hard-hitting Zeke Bonura. then picked up a few more players in the lobby of the Waldorf. Most outstanding trade of the week was the Detroit Tigers' acquisition of Pitcher Freddy Hutchinson, 19, of the Seattle...
...started out as expected when the Yankees got a run off the Giants' No. 1 pitcher, lanky, left-handed Carl Hubbell, in the first inning, and the Yankees' least-prepossessing pitcher, Irving ("Bump") Hadley, held the Giants scoreless. First indication of a Giant revival came when Hank Leiber knocked out a clean single in the second inning. Encouraged, Johnny McCarthy and Harry Banning singled in quick succession, which scored one run. Then Burgess Whitehead slapped a grounder that unluckily struck Danning as he was running from first to second, thus putting him out for being hit with...
...Lady Luck, Leiber alone and Dickey with this in mind--the Sage offers no Mancuses...
...bean ball" is a ball pitched at a batter's head. First noteworthy bean ball of 1937 was thrown accidentally by Cleveland's famed Young Bob Feller at Henry Leiber of the New York Giants. Next noteworthy bean balls were thrown purposely by famed Pitcher Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals at members of the New York Giants in St. Louis last fortnight to express his indignation over an umpire's decision. The Dean bean balls resulted in a free-for-all fist light on the field, fines of $50 each for Pitcher Dean...