Word: perini
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...usual, the guilty refuse to accept the blame. Do the good citizens sign and say, "Ah, well, we didn't support the team and new it's gone?" Perish to thought! Rather, they mutter about betrayal and curse Lou Perini for a hypocrite who pretended to be civic minded but cared only for the folding green...
National League club owners meet today to consider shifting the Boston Braves to Milwaukee, less than 48 hours after the American League refused to let the St. Louis Browns move to Baltimore. Meanwhile, a Boston real estate broker said he had wired an offer of purchase to President Lou Perini...
Until recently, however, Perini has reportedly refused to move his Brewers out of Milwaukee to make way for the St. Louis Browns. He turned down $500,000 for that deal...
...pressure, as well as the financial doldrums, seem to have been deciding factors for Perini; even the lateness of the move came as something of a surprise. As the Daily Record announced. "The sporting world was rocked to its very foundations." It well might have been, for in the same story, the Sporting News said the Browns will hustle out of St. Louis bound for a permanent home in Baltimore...
...Perini last night refused to comment on the Braves leaving. Heretorfore, he had denied such immediate action...