Word: schwener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little known as the defunct Federal League is tightlipped, bespectacled Clement Schwener, manager of the safe-deposit vaults of Boston's U. S. Trust Co. Kilterless baseball schedules of 25 years ago annoyed his mathematical mind...
...Schwener-no less enthusiastic about box scores than business indexes-sat himself down with pencil and paper, evolved a schedule of his own, submitted it to the heads of the American and National Leagues. He has been drawing up their schedules ever since...
This year, with ten teams adopting night baseball (the other six spurning it), with 1,232 games to be distributed over the 167-day season, with 16 clubs scrapping for the money-making Saturday, Sunday and holiday home games, unassuming Mr. Schwener's hobby took on the proportions of a full-time job. Undaunted, he dived once more into the maze of figures and variations, again came up with the answer...
...same time, up came the schedule man from obscurity. A reporter from the Boston Herald nosed out shy Mr. Schwener in his home in suburban Jamaica Plain after 25 years of anonymity...
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