Word: muckerman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phil Ball, a big cold-storage man, dropped $500,000 in five years. Donald Barnes, shrewd finance-man, gave it a whirl, got out while the getting was good. In 1945 Coal-&-Iceman Dick Muckerman stepped in. Save for the wartime year 1944, when the Browns surprised everybody by winning their first pennant since the American League was organized in 1901, the threadbare Browns went from bad to worse. About a year ago, the Browns sold a batch of their best players in order to stay solvent. The chief trouble, it seemed, was that St. Louis was a one-team...
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