Word: mudcat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among their other antics, the old Gas-housers had their famed Mudcat Band, whose incidental effect was to disturb the sleep of hotel guests. Eddie Dyer's Cardinals have no band, but they like music. A phonograph continually grinds out cowboy dirges, swing and sometimes bebop in the clubhouse when they are in St. Louis. It is the successor of an old hand-winding Gramophone that Doc Weaver brought into the clubhouse 22 years ago. The music box helped them win the 1942 pennant, with Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy the theme song. In 1946, in another hot pennant race...