Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John's player who commanded most of the crowd's attention was long-necked, jut-elbowed Center Harry ("Big Boy") Boykoff, 6 ft. 9, the tournament's tallest. When the Big Boy took wing up-court, he looked like a heron in full flight. When it came to playing basketball, there was nothing awkward about Coach Lapchick's team-or about the way Boykoff reached above the basket to bat out opponents' certain scores...
Fighting furiously for the ball, the Indians began to close the margin; with 30 seconds left, fiery little Hyman Gotkin stole the ball from a Wyoming player, passed down the floor and amid the wildest pandemonium the Garden has ever seen, tied the score for St. John's just before the whistle blew. Big Boy Boykoff picked up Teammate Gotkin in his arms, ran shouting up & down the floor with...
...league baseball last week got ready to open its 1943 season in the mood of tempered optimism of a batter running out a three-bagger with two out and a cross eyed player next at bat. Columnist Damon Runyon quoted odds of 9-to-5 that the major leagues would not be able to play out their 1943 schedules. Already some 225 of last year's 400 major leaguers had gone into the services. Nobody, not even Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt, knew how soon local draft boards would call the elderly and ailing ballplayers still left...
...replace box-office stars gone to war, every club had to load up with run-of-the-mill players brought up from the minors or oldsters rescued from oblivion. Cleveland Indians Manager Lou Boudreau had to put a sportswriter at third base to muster two teams for a practice game. The Giants desperately and futilely combed the field for a proper first baseman. The Brooklyn Dodgers congratulated themselves on having acquired one player (Bobby Bragan) who could double as catcher and shortstop, an other (42-year-old John Cooney) who provided triple insurance as pitcher, outfielder and first baseman. Said...
...Frank Billings, baseball bigwig. Art Lehman does some announcing as fencing manager, but he doesn't have Gentry's audience. Brad Perkins, Jaakko Mikkola's aide de camp, dons the togs for a daily jog, and Ollie Ames, who handled golf last spring, was one of the few player-managers...