Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...superiority had availed. The American League clubs, with the St. Louis Browns leading, were bunched as closely as piglets at feeding time, showing the sharpest competition in history. And below the leading St. Louis Cardinals, there was almost as much competition in the National League. One team and one player had especially good sporting value to offer in baseball's Ersatz Epoch...
...there has been more than the usual amount of Georgia accent and baseball talk around the diamonds of Soldiers Field of late, it is due to the presence of Lawrence "Crash" Davis, former major league ball player, and present B team baseball coach...
...Competitive spirit," according to Davis, makes a ball player. Had he seen any prospects on the Harvard club? Jack Wallace looked pretty good to the B-team coach. "I get a real kick out of coaching, and it keeps me in shape for baseball." At that point the genial CPO went off to pitch batting practice for his charges on the B team...
...voice on the campus. The first victory of his life came easily in the Michigan State Singing Contest (in the nationals, he placed third), and he cut a middling campus swath as head of the Glee Club, a leader of the music fraternity Phi Mu Alpha, and a stellar player in an opera called Top of the Morning. His role: a bold, bad conspirator, constantly plotting a coup to seize the throne...
...gypsy guitar player, Sabicas started playing a half-size guitar when he was 5. He was christened Augustin Castellón after his father. But a childhood passion for lima beans earned him the nickname Sabicas, which, in the dialect of Pamplona gypsies, means "the little one who likes beans." Famed for his unusual ability to play the guitar with one hand, Sabicas soon became the favorite accompanist of flamenco singers and dancers all over Spain. Nowadays, on evenings when he is not working, easy-going Sabicas-who looks like a Spanish Tom Dewey-is usually to be found...