Word: macke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Game. "Grove? No, I don't think Mack will use him. He'll save him, because of the effect it would have on the team if we beat Grove right at the start." Most people agreed with this idea...
Gabby Street, manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, yet perhaps Street felt after ward that he had been foolish in saying that and letting it come out in the papers where Mack could read it. While the crowd in Shibe Park, Philadelphia, was watching the teams at infield practice and President Hoover marched in with his party, Robert Moses Grove was warming up and a few minutes later the loudspeaker announced that he would pitch...
Pitcher Burleigh Grimes of the Cardinals was well aware that his job had been made no easier by the way Manager Mack had accepted Street's dare. Other things being equal, Grimes would need a little luck to win. Luck came to him, but it was bad. In the second inning Foxx hit, low and long. In right field, Blades of St. Louis lunged for the hit as it bounced off the wall. He hurried his throw and dropped the ball. Foxx went on to third. Later, in the sixth, hard-hitting Third Baseman Dykes of the Athletics...
Divorced. Grace Lincoln Hall Brosseau, president last year of the Daughters of the American Revolution, famed for her defense of the D. A. R.'s "blacklist" of liberal speakers and organizations (TIME, May 14, 1928), member of eight other historical societies; and Alfred Joseph Brosseau, president of Mack Trucks, Inc.; at Bridgeport, Conn. Allegations: two years ago Mr. Brosseau became uncongenial; last May he slapped Mrs. Brosseau's face in her boudoir when she refused him the key to their wine cellar. There are no children...
Managers. Silver-haired Connie Mack, proud, taciturn, scientific, drills his squad at blackboard baseball until they are dizzy. Said he recently: "I hesitated to call these boys one of my greatest teams because they have only won a single world's series. But after the way they've played this year I may as well say I think they're among the best that ever wore a uniform with an elephant...