Word: macke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black eyes and broken heads-plus whatever a teammate could pick up by passing the hat. But they played on. Princeton's Arthur Poe and Yale's "Pudge" Heffelfinger turned out in Pittsburgh around the turn of the century. In 1902 a young man named Connie Mack claimed the "Championship of the U.S." for his Philadelphia Athletics after risking the good left arm of his prize pitcher, Rube Waddell, in the Athletics' football lineup. And in the title game that year, Pittsburgh fielded another big-league pitcher: a fireball artist named Christy Mathewson...
...Blues, the town's only big ballpark (he is also part owner of New York's Yankee Stadium). The nearest major-league town, St. Louis, was more than 250 miles away, he argued, and Kansas City was full of potential fans. Even the A's Connie Mack, 91, Grand Old Man of Baseball, agreed that the move was a good idea. But Connie's two squabbling sons and co-owners, Roy and Earle, could not agree to sell. The silliest wrangle since Seward bought Alaska followed. But last week Connie Mack, his failing health shaken...
...Manhattan, American League owners listened to the simmering squabble about the future of the Philadelphia Athletics (TIME, Aug. 16), discovered that Connie Mack and his sons, Roy and Earle, could not agree on the future of the team, called all deals off and went home. As for the A's, they still had no home. ¶ At New Jersey's Garden State Park, Mrs. Russell A. Firestone's beautiful bay colt, Summer Tan, slogged through sloppy going in the Garden State Stakes, needed little help from Jockey Eric Guerin to win the world's richest...
...Connle Mack signed the last paper from his sick bed and will receive $604,000 personally. Johnson said he would use an additional one million dollars to build the Athletics into a first division team...
...many sprightly ensembles have been junked so that the picture's principals (Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse) could strut their uninspired stuff. The story is the same winged little thing, however, and to watch it carry this enormous production is like seeing a butterfly haul a Bulldog Mack...