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...Giants apparently intended to groom Hornsby for Manager John McGraw's job. But the Rajah lasted only one season. Reason: while substituting for McGraw on a road trip, he answered one of Owner Charles Stoneham's why-don't-you suggestions by saying: "You look after your stockmarket Stoneham, and I'll tend to the team...
Like Lou Gehrig, Hank Greenberg learned his baseball on the sidewalks of New York, first attracted big-league scouts while fence-busting for a New York high-school team. Big and gawky (6 ft. 4 in.), he was turned down by the late, great John McGraw because he was "too awk ward." But, like Gehrig, Greenberg was industrious, persevering, went on to be come one of the best first basemen in the game. After seven years at first base, Greenberg ungrudgingly agreed to shift to the outfield last year "for the good of the team" - to make room...
Rookie Martin's batting and running won him an outfielder's job and the Cardinals the National League pennant. That fall Pepper Martin won the World Series from the Athletics almost by himself. He made twelve hits, stole five bases, moved hard-bitten old John McGraw to exclaim: "The greatest World Series player I ever saw." Though Pepper Martin never again reached his 1931 World Series form, he became the most fabulous figure in baseball. They called him "The Wild Horse of the Osage." He was the loudest and toughest of the Cardinals' famed Gashouse Gang. Once...
...been let for the bulk (more than $9,000,000,000) of a little over $12,000,000,000 in Army-Navy funds. Said Mr. Knudsen: ". . . Some time late next spring or early summer we will have something to show." "Miles ahead, miles behind." Last week the business-minded McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.'s Factory Management & Maintenance examined U. S. defense, printed these conclusions...
Horblit agreed to pay damages of $1 to each of the seven plaintiffs, including the Macmillan Company, Harper Brothers, Harcourt, Brace and Company, McGraw-Hill Company, Ginn and Company, Henry Holt and Company, and D. Van Nostrand Company...