Word: newsom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bobo Newsom was right. He was the Dodgers' best pitcher. But the Old Showboat's arrogance got Manager Leo ("Lippy") Durocher's goat. When it came to a showdown last week-after Bobo's suspension for insubordination had caused a brief "sympathy strike" among his teammates-Dodger Boss Branch Rickey upheld Durocher. Newsom, only three years ago reputed to be baseball's highest-paid pitcher, was waived out of the National League, traded to the St. Louis Browns...
Many a baseball fan agreed that Newsom had been a sacrificial goat. But those who took a second look at last week's baseball standings were likely to view old Bobo's exile as a kick, not down the river, but upstairs. While the mutinous Dodgers apparently weakened their chances of dethroning the World Champion Cardinals in the National League pennant race, the Browns were one of four American League clubs still jockeying for position behind the pace-setting Yankees...
...Writers' Project in every city of 10,000, at least one writer or field worker in each of the U.S.'s 3,000 counties. He defended himself and his Project against charges of boondoggling and radicalism until 1939 when he retired to make way for John Dimmock Newsom, under whom most of the State Guides appeared...
Result of his first attempt as a 1942 Dodger: Cincinnati Reds, 0; Newsom, 2 -a four-hit whitewash which sounded to Owner MacPhail like Series money already in the cash register. But four days later, Bobo was terrible again-the Boston Braves knocked him out of the box in the sixth...
...When Little Rock sold him to the Cubs, the ebullient Newsom started to drive to Chicago to congratulate Owner Phil Wrigley on getting such a superb pitcher. The car, driven at the routine Newsom rate of 90-odd miles per hour, jumped the icy road. Just before spring training, Newsom went to a mule sale, and a mule kicked his freshly healed leg into smithereens again...