Word: lithia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...southpaw pitcher for the Atlanta Crackers. One day he met the boss's daughter, married her and quit pitching to run the concessions at the ball park. The night the ball park burned down, Johnny Suggs became a father. He and his new family moved 15 miles to Lithia Springs, Ga.; there Johnny took over a combined golf course and-picnic grounds. At three, his roly-poly daughter, Louise, was traipsing around the course after him, swinging at golf balls with a baseball grip...
That was as much Cinderella business as Mary could stand. She cried on her mother's shoulder, right before everybody. Next day in the final, she lost out, 11-and-10, to Veteran Campaigner Louise ("Sister") Suggs of Lithia Springs, Ga., who won her seventh major tournament of the year...
...Lithia, Mass...