Word: pipp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...playing on Broadway, and Ty Cobb was still in his prime - when Manager Miller Huggins of the New York Yankees, one fine day in June 1925, stepped up to a clumsy, rosy-cheeked rookie his scouts had picked up on the Columbia campus. "Gehrig," he muttered, "you take Wally Pipp's place at first base today." Last week, for the first time since that faraway day, the Yankees started a game without Lou Gehrig...
...Dahlgren after the game, but the only Yankee who dared try to console him was Pitcher Lefty Gomez. "Hell, Lou." said Lefty, "it took 15 years to get you out of the game; sometimes I'm out in 15 minutes." In the grandstand, viewing all this, was Wally Pipp, now a Grand Rapids (Mich.) businessman. "I know just how he feels," said Mr. Pipp...
...seen all the great players," said Powell, interviewed yesterday, "I saw Babe Ruth the first time he came to Boston and I saw Lou Gehrig take Olly Pipp's place at first base, and lots of others...
...Columbia when the fraternity house manager, who had become Columbia's Athletic Director, recognized Mr. Gehrig in the crowd at a high school football game in which little Louie was performing. Yankee scouts spotted him when he was still in college. On June 1, 1925, he replaced Walter Pipp at first base. From then through last week's games, Gehrig has not been out of the Yankee lineup for a single day. When he started a string of consecutive games played which is now almost 500 more than any other ever compiled by a major-league baseballer, crossword...
...When Mr. Pipp acquired a daughter, a magnificent creature with a bust, a pompadour, and a Grecian profile (see cut), Charles Dana Gibson became world-famed. No U.S. illustrator has ever had such a vogue. Collier's paid him $100,000 for a series of drawings. The Kaiser gave the Gibson Girl his official approval. There were songs about la fille Gibson on the Paris boulevards. A framed Gibson girl was as important to the U.S. undergraduate of 30 years ago as a bulldog pipe and a pearl-buttoned reefer...