Word: sandlots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though big names are notably absent from the roster of players (most of whom are drawn from the 10,000,000 sandlot baseballers and softballers in the U. S.), many a onetime star has turned promoter of indoor baseball. President of the league (at $7,500 a year) is 51-year-old Tris Speaker, Cleveland's baseball Immortal who has spent the past nine years as a radio sportcaster, Hollywood actor, minor-league club owner, wholesale liquor dealer and steel salesman. Managing the Cleveland club is another onetime Indian, baldpate Bill Wambsganss, only baseballer ever to make an unassisted...
Adolf Hitler was once a friend of the masses; so was Benito Mussolini. But they were sandlot revolutionaries beside the "hall sweeper" of the red revolution, the tough from the Caucasus, Joseph Stalin. Once Joe Stalin was proud of his exploits, proud of the way he darted into Armenian stores, stole what he wanted, fired some shots and ran, leaving men puking blood behind him; proud of the holdup of Tiflis -20 dead; proud of having the guts to toss bombs from a lamppost at fully armed Cossacks; proud of the holdups on mountain roads; proud of inflaming the doubters...
...Manhattan, Nurse Edna Burdick was driving along a viaduct when her car blew a tire, crashed through a guardrail, plummeted 100 feet to a sandlot. A policeman rushed up to the wreck. Nurse Burdick, scratched but otherwise uninjured, stepped out, asked him to help find her pocketbook...
When Bishop Spellman returned to Boston, near which he was born and, as a grocer's boy, played sandlot baseball, observers predicted for him an archbishopric and a Cardinal's red hat. Last week New York's genial Archbishop-elect, about to turn 50, had fulfilled one prediction, seemed sure to fulfill the other...
...Orleans, George Kernan, 16, clouted a softball, sadly watched it drop on the tender of a passing locomotive. Next day when the locomotive rumbled past the sandlot on its return run, Fireman John Primaut tossed Batter Kernan a brand new ball...