Word: player
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shake a Fugue. Farmingdale's Band Director Marshall Brown, 36, is the writer of more than 200 pop songs (Seven Lonely Days, Banjo's Back in Town), a former trombone and bass player and the holder of a graduate degree in music from Columbia. Hired to teach instrumental music in Farmingdale, he persuaded the high school five years ago to let him weed out the best players from the concert band and train them as a jazz group. "I felt," he says, "that the standard band repertory was too limited and that we were neglecting the most important...
...leading Former Champion Louise Brough in the second round when a thunderstorm washed out the match. Next day Althea collapsed before seasoned Tennist Brough. From that match until last week, no one really knew if Althea had the drive to match her physical talents; since becoming a name player in 1950, she had won more than a dozen tournaments, but only one major one (the French singles in 1956). In subsequent years she made most of the big-time tournaments, but never lived up to her promise. But last week she found the extra bit of confidence she needed...
...toward his right he is stealing." ¶On a pitcher: "Has major-league fast ball but is disturbing type on mound; looks like a mental case." ¶ On another pitcher: "Not recommended on present style. Has major-league equipment but is a Thomas Edison"-a baseball term for any player who is continually experimenting...
...Under. The Redlegs themselves are the first to quarrel with Birdie's earthy formula. Good players can be the making of a good manager, but Birdie's success is proof enough that a good manager can be the making of good players. Says Outfielder-turned-PitcherHal Jeff coat: "Birdie isn't a manager at all, if you want to know the truth. He's a teacher. He has a big knack of showing a ballplayer the results of effort and ability. Instead of saying two and two is four, he gives a player a problem...
...only eleven and determined to get the job of mascot on the Nashua (N.H.) Millionaires, a semi-pro baseball team that had just been organized in the New England mill town where he grew up. "I scared off three or four kids, and I was a better player than the others I couldn't scare off." In those days, Birdie's hero was a former big-league catcher named Bill Haeffner. Bill lent the youngster a mitt, and Birdie's career began. Soon he could catch the fastest pitcher on the club...