Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ELIZABETH MAY ROBERTS Glen Olden, Pa...
Penfield, Pa...
...rich Eagles, like the rich Red Sox, have discovered that it takes more than a bank roll to win a pennant. The club that dominates Negro baseball is not Effa's Eagles but the Homestead (Pa.) Grays, originally founded for the diversion of Carnegie Steel employes and now owned by two Homestead Negroes: Cum (for Cumberland) Posey, a member of the Board of Education, and Sonnyman (for Rufus) Jackson, a juke-box impresario. So far this season, the Grays have won 18 league games, lost only four...
...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...
Pull-Out. In his battered felt good-luck hat (he puts it on first thing in the morning, takes it off at bedtime), Riebel moved ponderously through the four Brewster plants (two in Long Island City, one in Newark, one in Johnsville, Pa.), shaking hands, telling everyone: "Call me Skippy." At first suspicious, workers soon got a kick out of calling the boss Skippy, got a bigger kick after he installed a huge new cafeteria in the final assembly plant at Johnsville, organized baseball teams, wangled the Government housing project for Johnsville. To get production on bombers, he balanced...