Word: macke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former second baseman in the Connie Mack "million dollar infield" of two decades ago was outspoken in his criticism of the attitude taken by college toward ball clubs who send players through school and then sign them up. A second peeve was intercollegiate restriction of undergraduates participating in semi-pro games during the summer and "maybe picking up a little spare cash...
...doing my Minsky on the beach one day," said Miss Wing, "when Mack Sennett saw me and put me in his comedies with Bing Crosby and W. C. Fields. No, I never got hit in the face with a pie; I was mostly the girl who sat on the beach and got insulted...
...years ago Lester Patrick did the same thing that Connie Mack has twice done in baseball: disbanded his great team to start building another from scratch. He had paved the way for doing so. Scouting -from the mill pond up-has long been the customary procedure in big-league hockey, but Lester Patrick four years ago brought an innovation to the sport when he started a training school for likely prospects. Because Eastern Canada has been so thoroughly scoured by scouts (75% of major-league players come from either Toronto or Ottawa), Manager Patrick opened his school in Winnipeg, where...
...Alford, San Marino, California; Robert H. Cain, Melrose; Peter C. Coggeshall, Darlington, South Carolina; James A. Dearborn, Brookline; Lawrence A. Hart, New York, New York; Charles A. Haskins, Cambridge; Albert P. Heiner, Salt Lake City, Utah; Thomas M. Hill, Bucksport, Maine; Samuel Y. Johnson, Pasadena, California; William M. Mack, Cambridge; Thomas H. T. Morrow, South Tacoma, Washington; Karl B. Rusch, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...
...Other Immortals: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, Honus Wagner, Walter Johnson, Napoleon Lajoie, Tris Speaker, Cy Young, Connie Mack, Ban Johnson, John J. McGraw, Morgan Bulkeley, George Wright...