Word: record
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White Sox in 1930, and has been with them ever since (except for 1944 and most of 1945 when he was in the Army). Last week in a series with the Senators at Washington, he played his 2,154th game as a major-league shortstop, breaking the record previously held by the National League's Walter ("Rabbit") Maranville...
...ceremonies the night before, when Appling tied the Rabbit's record, Maranville-was on hand to congratulate him, Senator Clyde Hoey of North Carolina (Appling's native state) made a speech, and the White Sox management presented him with an envelope containing a blank slip of paper, in lieu of a bonus check for an" unnamed amount which the management promised to pay him later. Luke celebrated the occasion by rapping out two hits in four times at bat and handling his three chances in the field perfectly. The White Sox won the game...
...majors' most distinguished record holder: Outfielder Tyrus Raymond Cobb, who played in 3,033 games in 24 years, quit at 41 with a record lifetime batting average of .367, a record of 892 stolen bases. * Since 1944, director of sandlot baseball for the New York Journal-American...
...hitters led by Robert Sherwood, John P. Marquand, Lewis Gannett, Christopher Morley, Maxwell Anderson. They obligingly tried to knock the cover off the ball, but it was SRL that slugged out the homer, circulation-wise. Even at the new price of 20?, up a nickel, it sold out a record press run of 150,000 copies in three days. Then it ran off another 10,000 copies, and contracted with a publisher to bring out the star-studded issue as a book...
Still, the creeping recession had not yet crept all over. Detroit was riding high, with the auto industry driving for its biggest postwar year. Last week Chrysler Corp. came up with record first-half earnings of $6.12 a share...