Word: season
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ancient baseball institution is preseason prognostication. Although most baseball fans are well aware of the fact that April forecasts are foolish, last week on the eve of the widely ballyhooed centennial season, they went ahead predicting how the major-league teams would finish in October. Most weighty predictions came from the baseball writers who had just returned from a two-month training-camp survey of sore arms, batting averages and rookies' temperaments...
Polled by the Associated Press, these experts prophesied that the season would wind up with the teams in this order...
...brought them from the cellar to fourth place-only six games behind the pennant-winning Chicago Cubs. They might have won the pennant had not Pitcher Lee Grissom, rookie prodigy of the year before, broken his ankle in a stupid attempt at base-stealing toward the end of the season...
...when he hit .366 and cracked out 43 home runs for the Minneapolis Millers, Boston fans will have something to wave about. Third Baseman Jim Tabor has already proved that he can cope with major-leaguers: in a tryout with the Red Sox at the tail-end of last season he batted .316 in 19 games. Not the least perturbed last week Rookie Williams drawled: "There is only one man on the Boston club who can hit them further than me. That's Jimmy Foxx.* And I'm not so sure he can sometimes...
...Boston Bruins, National Hockey League champions: the four-week, post-season playoffs for the Stanley Cup, No. 1 prize in professional hockey; defeating the Toronto Maple Leafs in the final series; four games to one. It was their first Stanley Cup victory since...