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Rather than waste Buck Newsom or Schoolboy Rowe against Cleveland's Boy Wonder, Manager Del Baker started Floyd Giebell, a right-handed rookie brought up from Buffalo only ten days before. A gawky stringbean who had lost more games this season than he had won, Rookie Giebell looked like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Vegetable Plate | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

Since the last World Series there have been many "incidents" leading up to our war. For one simple thing, it has been ruled that the Yankees can't trade in their league. For another more complicated item, a certain Judge Landis, of the Kenesaw Mountain Landises (distant kin of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WATCH THAT ARM, MR. ROOSEVELT | 4/16/1940 | See Source »

Last week, later than usual, on the very eve of the season's opening came the Dean headlines. But this time they were different. The big, right-handed pitcher, who had been a trademark for the St. Louis Cardinals ever since 1934, when his bumptious performances on & off the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dizzy Trade | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Immortal No. 14, whose career, like most baseballers', has been a poignant illustration of the old baseball adage-a hero in the third inning may look like a bum in the seventh-was last week swapping tales with local barflies in the Empire Hotel at Springfield, Ill., when he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Immortals | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

The loss of large portions of grey and white matter without serious physical impairment has led Dr. Alford to search for a comparatively small "core of intelligence" in the brain. He found it, he told the Association last week, in "a quite small area, lying posteriorly near the base of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Psychiatrists at Pittsburgh | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

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