Word: pennants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National League also has two new managers. At St. Louis, Bill McKechnie was deposed, despite the fact he won the league pennant last year, and replaced by Billy Southworth, who managed Rochester (International League) last year. In Boston President Emil Fuchs has announced that he will be manager in name and that the team's play will be directed by a board of three, the other members being Johnny Evers and Hank Gowdy, oldtime stars. This is a new departure, viewed with skepticism...
...instinct, training, and disposition, Rogers Hornsby is a superlatively good baseball player. Yet of late he has not stayed long on any "club." Three years ago he was made manager of the St. Louis Cardinals; they won the pennant and he was traded to the New York Giants, where he was captain and assistant manager; last year he was traded to Boston where he squabbled with onetime manager Jack Slattery, a native of the city, and supplanted him as manager. Because Bostonian baseball fans were annoyed at this and because Rogers Hornsby demanded $50.000 yearly, Judge Fuchs sold him. Hornsby...
...second baseman came from Buffalo to play with the Washington American League Club. In 1924, he managed the team which that year won the pennant and the World Series. Bucky Harris, the manager, became the greatest man in Washington. Coolidge was proud to shake his hand and Congressmen were lucky to get a look...
...next year, Washington won the pennant but lost the series to the Pittsburgh Pirates. In the season that is just now over Washington did less well. Last week, Clark Griffith, who owns the Washington team. announced that he had "fired" Bucky Harris, but would help him get a job with another team if another team offered him one. Reporters met Bucky Harris coming out of the ball park and asked him for an explanation. "Go up and see Griffith," said Harris. Said Griffith: "The best interests of the club. . . . We are still the best of friends...
...small eyes, his upper lip too short to cover his strong, uneven front teeth. The New York Giants bid a quarter of a million for him. They were told curtly: "Hornsby is not for sale." In his first full year as manager (1926), he brought the Cardinals their first pennant and the World's Championship. St. Louis plastered his picture all over the town. But Hornsby did not like his next contract with the Cardinals, and was traded to the Giants for "Fordham Frankie" Frisch and Fat James Ring. Last year Hornsby captained the Giants with McGraw ill, managed...