Word: player
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When George Robert Tebbetts first decided to break into baseball, he had to do some considerable plotting to get his first job. "I scared off three or four kids, and I was a better player than the others I couldn't scare off." So, at II, Birdie Tebbetts got to be mascot and bat boy for New Hampshire's semi-pro Nashua Millionaires, went on from there to become big-league baseball's "Most Voluble Player" and one of its best managers. For a report on how Birdie used at least part of his bat-boy formula...
...hustling, 14-year veteran of major-league catching. They had heard of him as a scrappy American League catcher (Detroit, Boston, Cleveland) who hated to come out second best in anything-a ball game, an argument with an umpire, a. conversation with a friend. They called him "Most Voluble Player in the Majors," but he had had only one short summer of seasoning as a minor-league manager. It was hard to believe that he knew enough tactics to manage a major-league club...
...entrance fee of $2 will be charged to each player in each category. This fee will be refunded to all players who remain in the tournament until eliminated, but refund will not be made where individuals fail to play their scheduled matches, it was announced...
...right) won the Grand Prize It is indeed a masterly work, executed in splotches of restrained browns and dull white that take shape only at a distance. Other exceptional works were George Grosz's "Night-mare," Mitchell Siporin's "The Gallery," and Max Weber's "Flute Player." William Kienbush received honorable mention for his competent "Coast of Baker Island." The sculpture choices, however, were poor on the whole; Isamu Noguchi's "The Ring" was by far the best item...
...influence of Woody Herman and Stan Getz; the recent "West Coast jazz," with its use of flutes and oboes, its emphasis on counterpoint and on writing out all the notes instead of on improvisation; the Jerry Mulligan quartet; and today's "big band jazz." I must single out sax-player Jaki Byard, who wrote many of the fine illustrations. This was a most rewarding evening...