Word: pennants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still preclude thoughts of spring ones, the only outlet for the enthusiasms of the sport fan comes from the Southland, where the big league training camps hold forth. Day by day bulletins come north relating the smallest details of the home team's preparation for the season. Never do pennant prospects appear as bright as in March, when veteran pitchers stage comebacks and rookie shortstop develop into capable regulars without the least difficulty. But all is not sunshine for the team's supporters, for is not Vic Aldridge, one of the best pitchers in the league, still a holdout...
...scholarship and athletics. An ill educational dictum it it, however, that does not blow some sporting columnist ten inches of copy: The truly unfortunate part of the attack is not that it discovers in track a sport that has pushed football out of the cellar position in the academic pennant race, even though such discovery may prove a hardship to many article writers. Grave astonishment is the natural reaction to the unsportsmanlike conduct of the Carnegie Institute. The athlete, helpless under what has been called "the dumbing influence of athletics", is struck down with an adding machine and his body...
...Forecast's most recent triumphs include picking Kottbus as the landing place of Mr. Levine and choosing Coolidge not to choose. He also predicted that several people would not be satisfied with the Tunney-Dempsey fight, and three days before the Yanks cinched the pennant, named them as the winners of the American League race...
...knew the difference between first base and home plate. New Yorkers predicted that he would get the Giants out of the "cellar" (last place) of the National League. He failed to do so in 1902; but he put the Giants in second place in 1903 and made them pennant winners in 1904. Everyone knows the subsequent history of the Giants- nine more National League pennants and three world's championships. Manager McGraw could develop comparatively green players into luminaries-the late Christopher Mathewson,† Lawrence Doyle, Ross Young, George Kelley, Francis Frisch. But he also knew enough to spend...
Commenting on the possibilities of his club's winning another American League pennant this year, he said, "I should say that the team which beats the Philadelphia Athletics this year will win out. I think the Yanks have as good a chance of doing that as has any other team, but further I cannot predict. I can assure you, however, that the Yanks will again try hard to win the pennant...