Word: macke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...live. He joined the Saranac Lake team in 1923. Dover, in the Eastern Shore League, bought him and got rich by selling him to Portland, Ore. for $15,000. From Portland, Cochrane went to the Athletics. Experts generally considered him the spark plug of the team with which Connie Mack won the pennant three times...
...Connie Mack was selling players and Detroit needed a new manager. Owner Frank J. Navin called in Sportswriter H. G. Salsinger of the Detroit News and said: "I can get Babe Ruth from the Yankees for practically nothing or Mickey Cochrane for $100,000. Which would you take...
...easygoing, stubborn, hot-tempered and prodigiously energetic, Cochrane's success as a manager is as hard to analyze as it is apparent. He makes no parade of the thinking processes which it takes to run a big-league ball club but if he is never seen like Connie Mack waving intricately scrawled scorecards, it does not mean that the moves of a baseball game are not as definitely outlined in his mind as those of a chess game in the brain of a blindfolded expert. His players like him because he discusses plans, theories and mistakes with them...
...Return of Peter Grimm (RKO). Lionel Barrymore is the cantankerous florist who, feeling a cold breath on his cheek, hastily completes arrangements to perpetuate the two projects dearest to his heart: his nurseries, and the happiness of his ward, Helen Mack. When, after death, he discovers that his plans will result only in decimating the first and stultifying the second he comes back. He has trouble getting through to the living at first, finally finds a doorway open to him-the mind of a child (George Breakston) who is slipping over into his world. Through that youngster he saves...
...heaven? Is he in hell? That damned elusive Pimpernel! Smiled Judge Mack: "The Scarlet Pimpernel hasn't a damned thing on Hopson...