Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston Bees shut-out the League leading New York Giants twice today at National League Park, winning the first game 6 to 0 and the night-cap 1 to 0. In New York the Red Sox dropped two to the Yankees. Lefty Grove lost his first game of the year as the Yanks took the opener 10 to 0, with Joe Cronin and Jake Powell being exiled for fighting. The Yankees also took the second game 5 to 4. Other scores--NATIONAL: Philadelphia 9, Brooklyn 5; Philadelphia 7, Brooklyn 4; Cincinnati 7, Chicago 3; Chicago 3, Cincinnati 0; Pittsburgh...
Sportswriters listened to his claim: "I was a left-handed pitcher for the Phillies. I guess you'd call me the Hubbell of my time. We were playing the Giants in the old Philadelphia ball park on August 21, 1887. Tim Keefe was pitching against me and he had a lot of stuff but I was no slow poke myself. It was the last of the ninth and New York was leading 4-to-3. Two men were out and there were runners on second and third. A week before I'd busted up a game with...
...years these words from the testament of Mrs. Ellen Phillips Samuel have been so many thorns in the flesh of the Fairmount Park Art Association of Philadelphia. Plump, exacting Mrs. Samuel died in 1913, leaving the association $765,000 to execute her row of dreamed-of statues along the Schuylkill's east bank. Mrs. Samuel's dream, however, gave the association the willies. They thought it smacked of waxworks...
...their effort to sit quietly on Mrs. Samuel's bequest, the Fairmount Park Art Association reckoned without frizzle-bearded Joseph Bunford Samuel, Mrs. Samuel's husband. For Statue No. 1 in the series, Mr. Samuel himself commissioned Icelandic Sculptor Einar Jönsson to do a heroic bronze Viking, presented it to the Park. It was left to languish in a toolshed. Mr. Samuel thereupon began to fight. After several years he got the Viking put up at the end of Boathouse...
...opening last week, President George Blumenthal of the Metropolitan solemnly thanked Mr. Rockefeller, and Park Commissioner Robert Moses pointed out his princeliness in buying eleven miles of Palisades across the river to keep the "backdrop" forever virginal. The good, grey donor, however, insisted that his contribution, "being largely financial," was "relatively unimportant...