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Fortune Gallo was a dreamy, 16-year-old Italian lad when he came to the U.S. His first job was at $3 a week, in an Italian bank, but by 1906 he had blossomed out as a band manager. When Mario Lombardi's South American opera company got tangled in difficulties in St. Louis, Gallo was called in to help push the operatic ship off the reefs...
...held the roaring Tigers to three hits, chalked up a 5 to 3 victory. It was the first World Series game a National League team had won since 1937. One masked hero of the game was rusty Jimmy Wilson, the Red coach, pinch-catching in place of crippled Ernie Lombardi...
...that involved them in the scandalous Black Sox Series of 1919. That they are the experts' choice this year is due to: 1) the ablest pitching staff in the league (headed by Paul Derringer, Lee Grissom, Johnny Vander Meer); 2) some of the best hitters (Batting Champion Ernie Lombardi, Ival Goodman, Frank McCormick); 3) Manager Bill McKechnie...
...yard free relay: Won by Boston (Cavanaugh, Baldwin, Lombardi, Doherty); second, Harvard (Ball, Brehmer, Downing, Godfrey). Time...
Last week the baseball writers made their selections: Jimmy Foxx of the Boston Red Sox (in the American League), and Ernie Lombardi of the Cincinnati Reds (in the National). For big-nosed, slow-footed, 220-lb. Catcher Lombardi, who guided Rookie Pitcher Johnny Vander Meer through his two famed no-hit games last summer and outbatted (.342) every other player in the league this season, it was his first taste of fame in eight years of banging around the National League...