Word: lineups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starting position are definite yet, and Coach Harlow is still looking for new material, but a tentative, lineup would certainly include Rod Perkins and Lou DiLuzio at the ends, Chet Pierce and Bill "Willow" Fisher at the tackles, Howle Foster and Mal Allen or Frank LeBart at the guards, and Pete Grady, Bob Faber, or Paul O'Leary at center...
...open its soccer season by playing Brown tomorrow at 3 o'clock, in Providence. Coach Jack MacDonald has an inexperienced team to pit against the Bruins, who are fresh from a conquest of the Coast Guard Academy after a summer of practice. Coach MacDonald has not settled on a lineup yet and is still locking for a Freshman manager...
...Only three of his wartime-style regulars -Newhouser, Trout and Greenberg (a better first baseman than outfielder) -could be sure of 1946 jobs. Probable 1946 lineup: Outfielders Dick Wakefield, Barney McCosky, Pat Mullin; Hank Greenberg 1b, Anse Moore 2b, Billy Hitchcock ss, Pinky Higgins 3b; Birdie Tebbetts...
Once he took offense at a natty, well-manicured prisoner in the police lineup, issued a famous order to the 200 detectives present: "He's the best-dressed man in this room. . . . Don't be afraid to muss 'em up. Blood should be smeared all over that velvet collar." Under Valentine (and, of course, with the help of LaGuardia and Tom Dewey) the slot-machine gangs, gambling rings, white-slavers, "popes and rabbis" (meddling politicians) were largely driven out or undercover. New Yorkers boasted, for the first time in memory, of the most honest police force...
Back in the Detroit lineup last week, after four years in the Army, big Hank Greenberg needed just four chances at bat to get his eye in. On the fifth try, he powdered a 375-ft. homer into his favorite left-field stand. With that wallop (and a repeat three days later), ex-Captain Greenberg: 1) began earning his $55,000-a-year salary, baseball's highest (for 60 days at least his pay remains at the 1941 rate); 2) made the front-running Tigers odds-on to win the American League pennant; 3) gave a psychological lift...