Word: likings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the best indication of the change can be seen in the shift of the spotlight from pitchers to batters. Once upon a time small boys wanted to grow up and be like Pitchers Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson. Now they want to grow up and be like Hitters George Herman ("Babe") Ruth or Rogers Hornsby...
Pitchers Guy Bush of the Chicago Nationals and "Swede" Walberg of the Philadelphia Americans have also been exceptions to the general rule of the sad and battered pitcher. Both are fastball pitchers (like Grove) depending chiefly on their arms, little on their heads...
Player Foxx, a 180-pounder just under six feet, has a chest expansion of 6½ inches. Like a majority of the Big League players, he is a small town (Sudlersville, Md.) boy. "I worked on a farm," he says, "and I am glad of it. Farmer boys are stronger than city boys. When I was 12 I could cut corn all day, help in the wheat fields, swing 200-pound bags of phosphate off a platform into a wagon. We had games on the farm to test strength and grip. A fellow had to plant both feet in half...
Rallyings. Public officials rallied the people. Said Ernest Amos, State Controller of Florida: "The people have, Samson-like, brought down the temple upon themselves . . . but . . . this is the dark hour just before the dawn...
Long have mail-order houses like Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Montgomery Ward & Co., sold by mail tires and other automotive accessories. Last week Sears, Roebuck decided to sell the automobile itself. Details concerning price and type of car had not been decided. Announcement was made, however, that the car would be manufactured by Gardner Motor Co., Inc.* and that Sears, Roebuck & Co. would distribute...