Word: pete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indications Saturday were that most of the men on the "sick list": would be ready for Saturday. Drvaric was still on crutches, but the doctors reported that his sprain was mending. Only Pete Petrillo will be completely out of action by the end of the week, the coaches suggested...
When pre-season practice started, it looked as though six-foot Ralph "Pete" Petrillo was going to be the squad's climax runner, operating from the tailback spot. But the sick list started out with Pete on top, and Coach Harlow, always afraid of ruining his players for good by playing them too often, has kept him out of all contact work so far to protect his bruised back--making him a very doubtful starter for this Saturday or even next...
...tackles are up in the air...the ends are out of this world. Harlow was served with a crippling blow on Friday when one of the two men he had picked as starters made a decision to quit the game in favor of academic efforts. 1942 letterman Pete Garland decided to concentrate on his chosen field of architecture, leaving the team in a procarious position...
...Says he: "I just get a feeling." He kept his bullpen in a stew: sometimes, against a single batter, he deliberately used one pitcher for a fast ball, another for a curve. For 15 weeks, with only about four first-rate men (Ed Stanky, Peewee Reese, Dixie Walker and Pete Reiser), Durocher had held the Dodgers at the top of the league. It was a great performance, worthy of making Durocher "manager of the year," but it was not enough to keep the talented, slow-starting Cards out of first place last week...
...glumly on a bare wooden platform while "Pete" Green and kinky-haired Senator C. Wayland Brooks paid him fancy tribute. He mopped streams of perspiration from his brow, went under the grandstand for a cold bottle of pop. Then he spoke...