Word: powells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means out of the running, three teams were last week fighting for the two remaining places in the league's first division. Of the three-Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Giants-the Reds, in the third season under their enthusiastic owner, Radio's Powel Crosley, appeared the ablest, as they were undoubtedly the most surprising, because they have won only one pennant in 51 years, have been tailenders since 1929. The Boston Bees (onetime Braves), feeblest team in the league a year ago, were battling sturdily in sixth place, far ahead of the Philadelphia Phillies...
...Zenith's president journey inland. Since 1929 he has lived winter & summer on his 185-ft. yacht Mizpah. In winter he ties up in the Chicago River near the Michigan Avenue Bridge. Tall, black-browed, weathered, he likes to cruise to Ontario's Georgian Bay with Radioman Powel Crosley Jr., agreeing beforehand not to mention radio. He likes checked suits and stiff collars, cocktails made with pistachio ice cream and gin. But what Eugene Francis McDonald likes most of all is to put on a diving helmet and sit on the floor of Georgian Bay watching the fish...
...HOWARD POWEL...
...might eventually come true, when minor leagues began to experiment seriously with night baseball. Depression encouraged the idea. By last season, 70 minor-league clubs had installed floodlights, found that night crowds equaled those on Sunday afternoons. Major-league owners have been talking night baseball since 1932. Last winter Powel Crosley, who bought the Cincinnati Reds the year before out of his radio and refrigerator profits, got permission to have his team play seven night games, one against each of the other teams in the league. He spent $62,000 installing the 363 lights on eight giant towers above...
President Powel Crosley...