Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bright Idea. In Chicago, a court order forbade Nick Messina to throw lighted matches at his mother...
...Armen Essayen will be available for the two remaining "spring" contests as well as the summer schedule, as will pitchers Norm Wholley and John Knowles, and first sacker Bill Fitz. But the rest of the squad, second baseman Saul Mariaschin, shortstop Don Forte, third-baseman Don Coppinger, and outfielders Nick Rodis and Mal Allen will leave the Crimson squad after the Eli contest, and their positions remain a matter of doubt until Samborski sizes up his new prospects...
...still a trifle erratic, but their hitting has come up sharply to provide them with 7 to 2, 11 to 2, and 15 to 9 scores in late-season games. Shortstop-captain Don Swegan is still leading the team batting parade with a lusty .368 average, while his teammates Nick Rodis and Bill Fitz, who have been hitting steadily all season, have healthy percentages of .346 and .342. The nine's only other .300 hitter is left fielder Mal Allen, who has risen sharply after an early season slump to his present...
Then and Now is a story built around the events of those few months. His Machiavelli is by no means the wicked Old Nick after whom the Devil himself is said to be named. He is a wary, humorous, thoughtful lecher with stomach trouble, who spends most of his free time worrying about how (and if) he is going to keep an assignation with a lady named Aurelia. During business hours he proves to be an astute, hard-working Florentine spy. He admires Borgia's ruthless audacity, but always from a diplomatic distance...
Jimmy was all set to make his big promotional comeback next month at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. Last week, sitting in dusty, second-rate St. Nick's Arena, he saw his white hope fall down five times in ten rounds. Said Jimmy: "It made me sick." Next morning, 70-year-old James J. Johnston fell dead of a heart attack...