Word: sandlots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rule are college players, who are occasionally able enough to join major-league teams without serving an apprenticeship, but major-league club-owners long since perfected a method of evading their own law in the case of non-college players. When a major-league scout spots an able sandlot prospect, he notifies a friendly minor-league team, which hires the player with the understanding that the major-league team which discovered him has an option on his services. Last week, a remarkable case in baseball law concerning a remarkable player was ended by a remarkable decision by woolly-haired...
...Moines, in 1935, a scout for the Cleveland Indians discovered a sandlot pitcher named Robert Feller, who, although he was not yet 17, seemed promising enough to hire. Following the customary procedure, Feller was given a contract with the Fargo-Moorhead Club of the Northern League. Before he had played a game with Fargo-Moorhead, Cleveland had him transferred to New Orleans. Before he had played a game for New Orleans Cleveland arranged for Feller, while still young enough to have his father sign his contracts and be prevented from playing minor-league baseball because his family wanted...
Even football is represented in the exhibit. One of the pictures in the collection of drawings by Robert Cruikshank shows a game amongst some boys, evidently of a military school, as it was in 1830. Enough description of the picture is to say that it is exactly like sandlot football played by boys every where today...
...Legion's "Colonel" Harvey Davis decided on hanging. Poole was lured to the meeting on the pretext that he was needed for a sandlot baseball team. The men piled into a string of automobiles with their victim, started out of town. At a spot near Dearborn, after a round of drinks, one Denton Dean discovered that there was no rope handy, abruptly shot five slugs into Charles Poole...
Deaths attributable to football, a source of deep concern to preachers, coaches, and heads of college athletic associations in 1928 and 1931, have aroused no indignation this year. By last week 19 football deaths had been announced. One Robert Mansfield, playing on an Oakland, Calif, sandlot, died when he ran head first into a telegraph pole. Andrew Crespino of New Orleans died of a heart attack during practice when he leaned over to tie his shoe...