Word: mathewson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter Johnson, still 25 pounds underweight from influenza, left St. Augustine to have his kidneys examined. "You may have to take a rest, Walter," said the doctor. Friends, fans, hearing the news, were worried, remembering how Christy Mathewson, the only pitcher as famed, as great as Johnson, died of tuberculosis (TIME...
...imposing New York Giants thus shed a player who ranks in popular imagination with Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, the late Christy Mathewson. Manhattan, irate, demanded reasons. The Giants management sat silent...
Christopher Mathewson-John L. Wheeler, president of the Bell Syndicate, Inc., onetime editor of Liberty magazine...
...Giants in second place in 1903 and made them pennant winners in 1904. Everyone knows the subsequent history of the Giants- nine more National League pennants and three world's championships. Manager McGraw could develop comparatively green players into luminaries-the late Christopher Mathewson,† Lawrence Doyle, Ross Young, George Kelley, Francis Frisch. But he also knew enough to spend fortunes to buy other teams' luminaries. He began his high-priced acquisitions in 1908 by paying $11,000 for Richard Marquard. In later years the price went up-$50,000 for "Irish" Meusel, $100,000 apiece for Hugh...
...Strong men are rare. Once in ten years, or twenty perhaps, one rises up, tempered and knowing, warden of an imperious secret. He lasts a little longer or goes a little harder than another before his strength, too, crumbles, and Death takes him. Last week it took Christy Mathewson...