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...shortstop for Gloucester High, Stuffy blocked enough grounders and broke up enough ball games with his bat to get himself taken on by Haverhill of the New England League. Billy Madden, who managed the Beverly team and also scouted for Connie Mack, was so impressed by young McInnis' hitting ability that he persuaded him to join with Beverly. "My association with Harvard started then," says Stuffy. "The 1907 Beverly club had Eddic Grant, Bill Matthews, and Eddic Loughlin, all students at Harvard Law School...
Stuffy didn't stay long at Beverly. In 1908, Madden signed him for Connic Mack, and the following spring, Stuffy, a beardless youth of 19, was heading south for New Orlcans with the Athletics. This was the start of an 18-year major league career that was to see Stuffy get over 2000 hits, make over 16,000 put-outs, slip below 300 only once, go through 119 games at first base without an error (1921-22), and appear in World Series lineups for three different teams, the Athletics, Red Sox, and Pirates...
...town of Freedom (pop. 250) lies in a darkly wooded valley in Owen County, Indiana. The country around it is mostly "hills, hollers and underbrush." That's the way Miss Edith Madden, the telephone switchboard operator, describes it. Freedom is a farming town, more than 100 years old, and is connected with the world by State Highway...
Tech landed the first blow in the Varsity game, with a score by Engineer Jay Madden, but instead of firing his teammates, the goal increly infuriated the Crimson. Before M.I.T. could hit the nets again, they had tallied seven times to few up the victory...
...Brooklyn and Broadway character, Murray Garsson had been arrested half a dozen times for crimes ranging from plain robbery to evasion of corporation laws. His only conviction was for speeding (sentence suspended). He had been a pal of New York City's gang kingpins Dutch Schultz and Owney Madden, was suspected of being their partner in illicit breweries. The FBI had Garsson down as suspect of arranging protection for big-time bootleggers...