Word: sandlots
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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...
...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...