Word: monessen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neighborhood grocer and had some standing in the community as Donora High's star pitcher. He was also bat boy during the summer for the zinc works' semi-pro team, managed by Joe Barbao. One day, with his club shorthanded and his pitcher wilting before the Monessen (Pa.) sluggers, Joe sent Bat Boy Musial to the mound. The rest of the team thought it was a joke until Musial struck out a batter: he wound up by striking out 13 men in six innings...
Sweet Dream. In Monessen, Pa., Sergeant Eddie Hughes's foxhole fantasy became a fact: a banana split consisting of two quarts of ice cream, one quart of fruit salad, ten bananas and proportionate applications of marshmallow, whipped cream, chocolate, pineapple and cherries...
...peculiar habit: he rolls up his tongue and sandwiches it, like a hot dog, between his lips. Thus fortified, he can swat a ball a country mile. In 1938, playing against the Memphis Red Sox, he connected for four home runs in a single game. In 1930, in Monessen, Pa., he smashed a homer officially measured at 513 ft.* In a recent doubleheader at Griffith Stadium, he hit three home runs, one for a distance of 485 ft. Last week Gibson led both Negro leagues with a batting average of .541-a little less than super because he had been...
Soothsayer Characky, a Monessen (Pa.) moving picture operator and a baseball manager's perennial pest, had made too many false forecasts in years gone...
Last week, however, Manager Vitt had more respect for the Merlin of Monessen...