Word: peckinpaugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Except for Roger Peckinpaugh, who managed the Yankees for two weeks when...
...former big leaguer: Kub Catcher Fred ("Jake") Ross, retired streetcar maintenance man from Rockville Center, N.Y., who once played with the New York Metropolitans (a forerunner of the Yankees). One of the league's leading sluggers, who plays second base for the Kubs, is 83-year-old Frank Peckinpaugh, father of the great baseballing Roger.* The Kids' most eminent character is 77-year-old Elmer Veitch, onetime North Dakota State senator. Oldest player is Detroit's and the Kids' Elmer Wilken...
...Boudreau, a handsome, intelligent kid just two years out of college, is younger (by two and three years respectively) than Bucky Harris and Joe Cronin were when they first became managers of the Washington Senators. He would be the youngest manager in big-league history, had not Roger Peckinpaugh (whom Boudreau supplanted last week) once, at 23, managed the New York Yankees for two weeks...
...Cleveland the fine-feathered Indians, promising to make a brave showing for their new manager, Roger Peckinpaugh, were socked by the Chicago White Sox, 4-10-3. Fireball Bob Feller, baseball's No. 1 pitcher, who chalked up a no-hit game in last year's opener, retired in the sixth inning-after walking seven men, hitting two more, allowing five hits...