Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Phillies had begun the season like their stumblebum predecessors by losing 24 times in 32 games. Their new manager, onetime Yankee Ben Chapman, tried everything: he forbade any player even to mention the word cellar, fired three veterans on the team who couldn't shake off that old Philly feeling. His toughest self-assignment: patting pitchers on the back when they got knocked out of the box. Ben Chapman himself had changed since he got kicked out of organized baseball for a year three years ago for slugging an umpire...
...Kramer was temporarily excused from his job as a player on the U.S. Davis Cup team to compete at Wimbledon. This week, without him, the U.S. beat Mexico's Davis Cuppers to win the American zone playoffs...
Supplementing this list are several outstanding newcomers including Lane McGovern, a former Andover player, Bill Brady, a member of the University of Pennsylvania freshman team, Howard Schwartzman, Harold Melvin, and Mel Kessel...
Pitchers are usually the first to blow their tops at Ed Stanky; but the fury often spreads to the catcher, then to the whole team. Hissed one rival player: "First you 'lose' Stanky, then you lose your head. First thing you know, you've lost the ball game...
...need of a haircut. He knew a little English but said he had already learned the "Indian language" (uh-uh; uh-huh; huh). He knew all about U.S. jazz (he plays the piano, violin and banjo by ear). In Manhattan, Strand listened to Swingdom's blind piano player Art Tatum, his favorite, then went off reluctantly to California. But the Swedish speedster, a printer by trade, did not forget what he came over...