Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Philadelphia (Meyer) 7, Pittsburgh...
...Worst Degree." To Pittsburgh-born Billy, his flaming success at 34 is still a mystery. At St. Paul's Polytechnic Institute in Lawrenceville, Va., he was more interested in baseball and football than singing. Says he: "We thought guys in music were a little on the lavender side." He began to change his mind after winning an amateur-night singing contest in Washington's Howard Theater. By 1939, he had joined Earl ("Father") Hines's big band as a double-singing, and playing "trumpet in the worst degree." Says Billy: "I played fourth trumpet...
Frankie Frisch, 51, baseball's old "Fordham Flash," is an ingenious man and a highly vocal competitor. Once, while managing Pittsburgh, he tried to get himself thrown out of a hopelessly lost ball game in Brooklyn so that he could hustle up to New Rochelle, N.Y. and tend his flower garden. "No you don't, Frisch," said the umpire he was sassing. "Get back on the bench and go home with the rest of us." When Frisch was running the celebrated Gashouse Gang in St. Louis, Dizzy Dean used to needle him "just to hear that Dutchman roar...
Light Touch. In Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania Railroad investigated high maintenance costs, finally charged two employees with stealing 250,000 electric bulbs...
...Pittsburgh (Sewell) 6, New York...