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...decade, pitchers do seem to travel in clusters. Hubbell materialized in the swift company of Dizzy Dean and Lefty Gomez. Seaver enjoyed the prolonged fellowship of Steve Carlton, Jim Palmer and Nolan Ryan. Bob Gibson, Juan Marichal and Gaylord Perry formed their club. Even Walter Johnson had Rube Marquard. "There's some safety in numbers," Tom Browning agrees. "Last year, when Pete (Rose) was drawing the crowds, I was left alone to get a nice quiet...
...America. The two pages consist of a collage made from period New York Times clippings. Advertisements for 1912 roadsters, electrical engineer training courses endorsed by Thomas Edison, and a notice that Macy's Department Store will be moving to Herald Square accompany notice of a Washington Senators victory. Rube Marquard and Smokey Joe Wood no-hitters, and boxscores full of names like Tris Speaker, Ty Cobb and Fred Merkle. Indeed, Ritter introduces many players with excepts from Spalding's Base Ball Guide circa 1909, John J. McGraw's My Thirty Years in Baseball, a scene from The Great Gatsby...
Whether it was Ritter's adept questioning, or just a collection of exceedingly articulate athletes most probably a combination of both each chapter seems better than the last. Paul Waner, Rube Marquard, Edd Roush, Goose Goslin and Hank Greenberg have much to tell and tell it well. They talk of an America when baseball, like Jazz music, was not a respectable profession. It was difficult for Jimmy Austin to rush off to Dayton Ohio to play ball in a factory league for forty dollar's a month. It was equally difficult for Harry Hoper to overlook a good...
DIED. Richard W. ("Rube") Marquard, 90, Hall of Fame pitcher for the old New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers, whose string of 19 victories in a row at the start of the 1912 season remains a record; of cancer; in Baltimore...
...student is suspected of cheating and the Administrative Board finds him guilty, and he confesses his guilt, he is required to withdraw from the University for a year," John Marquard, senior tutor of Dudley House, said yesterday...