Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Played under practically the same rules, indoor polo differs from outdoor polo in five major respects: three players instead of four; four chukkers instead of eight; smaller field; playing surface of clay, sand and shavings; leather-covered rubber ball instead of a wooden ball...
...major-league baseball parks seat altogether about 700,000 fans. For millions of other followers of baseball, next best thing to a seat in the bleachers is to hear a game over the radio. This week the radio starts its biggest baseball season in history...
...first time every major-league team will have at least one sponsor. Procter & Gamble Co., for example, will broadcast some of the New York Yankees, Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers games to boost Ivory Soap. Atlantic Refining Co.-sponsoring a share of the games of the two Boston teams, the two Philadelphia teams, the Pittsburgh Pirates and a host of minor leaguers-will give players $5 books of gas-&-oil coupons for home runs and shutouts. Socony-Vacuum will cover twelve major-league teams, many minors. Biggest plunger of all will be a perennial baseball sponsor, General Mills Inc., with...
...dramatic announcement. But the newsmen could add all that. They had heard enough--the highest authority in the land had commented on the news the land was waiting for. His arm was ready to loss in the first ball of today's game in Griffith Stadium, opening the 1939 major league baseball season...
...minor sports athlete who will not easily give up his "H" for a House letter tossed in his direction as a sop. If he is a wrestler or soccer man, he might in the future to be more than propitiated by the elevation of his sport to a major status, provided this action was justified by popularity. Also forced to sacrifice will be the administration, for the abolition of intercollegiate competition in minor sports means the abolition of a corresponding amount of publicity--publicity which Harvard must greedily seek no matter how proud she is. It means in addition...